By Seamus Heaney
New York Times bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Award.
Composed towards the top of the 1st millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the probably invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mom. He then returns to his personal kingdom and dies in previous age in a shiny struggle opposed to a dragon. The poem is set encountering the colossal, defeating it, after which having to continue to exist within the exhausted aftermath. within the contours of this tale, straight away distant and uncannily frequent first and foremost of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney reveals a resonance that summons energy to the poetry from deep underneath its floor. attracted to what he has known as the "four-squareness of the utterance" in ?Beowulf? and its monstrous emotional credibility, Heaney provides those epic features new and convincing truth for the modern reader.
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