Beowulf : A Verse Translation
ISBN: 9780393975802 | 0393975800
Edition: 00Format: Textbook Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 12/17/2001
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Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaney's translation "accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" (New York Times Book Review).
| List of Illustrations | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Old English Language and Poetics | p. xv |
| Translator's Introduction | p. xxiii |
| The Text of Beowulf | p. 1 |
| Contexts | p. 79 |
| The Beowulf Manuscript | p. 81 |
| Genesis 4.1-16 Cain and Abel | p. 84 |
| Hall-Feasts and the Queen | p. 85 |
| Grettir ... MORE | p. 86 |
| The Frisian Slaughter: Episode and Fragment | p. 89 |
| Alcuin "What has Ingeld to do with Christ?" | p. 91 |
| Gregory of Tours History of the Franks [Hygelac's Raid into Frisia] | p. 93 |
| William of Malmesbury [Genealogy of the Royal Family of Wessex] | p. 93 |
| On the Wars between the Swedes and the Geats | p. 94 |
| Genealogies of the Royal Families in Beowulf | p. 95 |
| The Kingdoms and Tribes of Beowulf | p. 96 |
| Map: The Scandinavian Setting of Beowulf | p. 97 |
| Beowulf's Name | p. 98 |
| Criticism | p. 101 |
| Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics | p. 103 |
| The Interlace Structure of Beowulf | p. 130 |
| The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother | p. 152 |
| The Beowulf Poet's Sense of History | p. 167 |
| The Tomb of Beowulf | p. 181 |
| The Christian Language and Theme of Beowulf | p. 197 |
| Archaeology and Beowulf | p. 212 |
| The Philologer Poet: Seamus Heaney and the Translation of Beowulf | p. 237 |
| Glossary of Personal Names | p. 248 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 251 |
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Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. A resident of Dublin since 1976, he teaches regularly at Harvard University
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