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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Rosemary Sutcliff |
| Editors: |
Seamus Heaney |
| Fiction Genre: |
Literary Criticism · Poetry |
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Eagleton, Terry, London Review of Books: "Within Heaney's writing, the civic and the chthonic have always slogged it out, and this magnificent translation is no exception....[This translation] is a marvelously sturdy, intricate reinvention, which betrays its author's poetic dabs less in its earthiness than in its airiness. It is the canny colloquialisms ('in fine fettle,' 'under a cloud,' 'blather,' 'big talk,' 'gave as good as I got') which are most Heaneyesque, not the smell of the soil....This poet is so superbly in command that he can risk threadbare, throwaway, matter-of-fact phrases like 'of no small importance' or 'the best part of a day.' He has a casual way with the alliterative patters of the original, which helps to strip its craft of portentous self-consciousness and frees up its syntax to move more nimbly....Heaney [is] an artist so exquisitely gifted and imaginatively capacious that only a work of such mighty scale would answer to his abilities." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Audio - Compact Disc Publisher: Highbridge Co (May 04, 2000) Measurements: 5"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.25 lbs. ISBN: 9781565114272 |
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Presents a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother. |
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