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Beowulf / translated into verse by William Ellery Leonard and illustrated by Lynd Ward.

Title
Beowulf / translated into verse by William Ellery Leonard and illustrated by Lynd Ward.
Publication
New York : For the members of the Heritage Club [c1939]

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Additional Authors
  • Leonard, William Ellery, 1876-1944
  • Ward, Lynd, 1905-1985
Description
2 p. ℓ ., iii-ix p., 1 ℓ., 120 p., 1 ℓ. : col. front., illus., col. plates; 28 cm.
Summary
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. - Amazon
Uniform Title
Beowulf. English
Subject
  • Beowulf, King of the Geats > Poetry
  • Grendel (Monster) > Poetry
  • Epic poetry, English (Old)
  • Monsters > Poetry
  • Dragons > Poetry
  • Epic poetry, English (Old) > Translations into English
  • Heroes > Poetry
  • Scandinavia > Poetry
Genre/Form
  • Poetry
  • Translations
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. viii-ix.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
LCCN
^^^39016551^
OCLC
  • 2087828
  • SCSB-10903641
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library