New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.
Omschrijving
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, 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 monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.
Promotionele informatie
By the 1995 Nobel Laureate for Literature and author of "The Spirit Level", winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year (1996).
Productspecificaties
- Auteur: Seamus Heaney
- Uitgever: WW Norton & Co
- Verschijningsdatum: 2001-02-17
- Aantal pagina's: 256
- ISBN: 9780393320978
- Thema: Poetry / poems by individual poets
- BISAC: POETRY / General
Over de auteur
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.