Beowulf: A Verse Translation : A Norton Critical Edition, Paperback / softback Book

Beowulf: A Verse Translation : A Norton Critical Edition Paperback / softback

Edited by Daniel (Harvard University) Donoghue

Part of the Norton Critical Editions series

Paperback / softback

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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 civilisation 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.

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