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Beowulf
- Title
- Beowulf / translated by Stephen Mitchell.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-5876 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Mitchell, Stephen, 1943-
- Description
- xxxi, 225 pages : map, genealogical tables; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Beowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures--a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel's monstrous mother, and a dragon--and then dies, mortally wounded during his last encounter. If the definition of a superhero is "someone who uses his special powers to fight evil," then Beowulf is our first English superhero story, and arguably our best. It is also a deeply pious poem, so bold in its reverence for a virtuous pagan past that it teeters on the edge of heresy. From beginning to end, we feel we are in the hands of a master storyteller. Stephen Mitchell's marvelously clear and vivid rendering re-creates the robust masculine music of the original. It both hews closely to the meaning of the Old English and captures its wild energy and vitality, not just as a deep "work of literature" but also as a rousing entertainment that can still stir our feelings and rivet our attention today, after more than a thousand years. This new translation--spare, sinuous, vigorous in its narration, and translucent in its poetry--makes a masterpiece accessible to everyone." -- Publisher's description
- Uniform Title
- Beowulf. English.
- Beowulf. English (Old English) (Mitchell).
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-224).
- Language (note)
- Parallel text on facing pages in Anglo-Saxon (Old English) and English.
- Contents
- Introduction -- About this translation -- About the text -- A note on pronunciation -- Map: the geography of Beowulf -- Beowulf -- Appendix: Genealogical tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-5876
- ISBN
- 9780300228885
- 0300228880
- LCCN
- 2017938421
- OCLC
- 2017938421
- Title
- Beowulf / translated by Stephen Mitchell.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-224).
- Language
- Parallel text on facing pages in Anglo-Saxon (Old English) and English.
- Added Author
- Mitchell, Stephen, 1943- translator.
- Added Title
- Beowulf. English.Beowulf. English (Old English) (Mitchell).
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-5876