Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Fine. Item #006687
Bilingual edition. Full black paper boards. xxxi, 213 pp. Dust jacket has some bumping and creasing to rear cover and spine foot, else in fine condition. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monsterous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath.
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