Beowulf : 2nd Norton Critical Edition

Verse Translation

By: Seamus Heaney (Translator), Daniel Donoghue

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Paperback | 5 April 2019 | Edition Number 2

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344 Pages

Edition Type
Revised

Dimensions(cm)
21.5 x 13.0 x 1.8

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This Norton Critical Edition includes:

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney’s poetic translation of the great Anglo-Saxon epic—winner of the Whitbread Prize—along with his translator’s introduction.
Detailed explanatory annotations and an introduction to Old English language and prosody by Daniel Donoghue.
More than two dozen visuals, including, new to the Second Edition, a fine selection of objects from the Staffordshire Hoard.
A rich array of Anglo-Saxon and early northern civilization materials, providing student readers with Beowulf’s cultural and historical context.
Nine critical interpretations, three of them new to the Second Edition.
A glossary of personal names and a selected bibliography.

About the Series

Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

About the Authors

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born at Mossbawn farmhouse between Castledawson and Toomebridge, County Derry, he resided in Dublin until his death.

Daniel Donoghue is Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of Style in Old English Poetry: The Test of the Auxiliary and Lady Godiva: A Literary History of a Legend.

Industry Reviews

"Magnificent, breathtaking... Heaney has created something imperishable and great that is stainless-stainless, because its force as poetry makes it untouchable by the claw of literalism: it lives singly, as an English language poem." -- The Guardian

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