Beowulf Heaney Seamus
Beowulf Heaney Seamus Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf ?is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel…
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Beowulf Heaney Seamus
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf ?is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. In Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition, John D. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in ?Beowulf ?and its immense emotional credibility Seamus Heaney gives the great epic convincing realityBut how to visualize the poet's story has always been a challenge for modern-day readers.
More than one hundred full-page illustrations--Viking warships, chain mail, lyres, spearheads, even a reconstruction of the Great Hall--make visible Beowulf's world and the elemental themes of his story: death, divine power, horror, heroism, Niles, a specialist in Old English literature, provides visual counterparts to Heaney's remarkable translation.