Review Of Beowulf By Seamus Heaney
Translated throughout the late s, it was published in by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux and won that year's Whitbread Book of the Year Award.
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The Prince of the GeatsBeowulfcomes to defend Heorot and defeat the monster Grendel, which he accomplishes by wounding the monster through unarmed combat. Soon after, Grendel's Mother comes to avenge her son, but Beowulf slays her as well, this time by using a sword found among the hoard of treasure in the Mother's cavernous abode. Beowulf returns to the Geats and becomes their king, ruling for 50 years up until a great dragon begins to terrorize his people.
The octogenarian Beowulf attempts the fight here new monster, which he accomplished but at the price of a fatal wound.
Seanus he lays dying, he declares Wiglaf as his heir. The old king is buried with a monument by Beowylf sea. Seamus Heaney hoped that translating Beowulf would result in "a kind of aural antidote," and a "linguistic anchor would stay lodged on the Anglo-Saxon sea-floor. The translation was reinvigorated once he realized connections between the form and manner of the original poem more info his own early poetic work, including how his early poems diverted from the conventional English pentameter line and "conformed to the requirements of Anglo-Saxon metrics.
Professor James S. Shapiro stated in The New York Times that Heaney's Beowulf is "as attuned to the poem's celebration of the heroic as he is to its melancholy undertow" [4] and Joan Acocellawriting in The New Review Of Beowulf By Seamus Heaneyhas compared Heaney's version to the posthumous translation by J. Tolkienbut distinguishes that Heaney focuses more on the poetics rather than the details and rhythm of the original, creating a necessarily free version more fit for the modern reader.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. First folio of the Anglo-Saxon copy of Beowulf.
Main article: Beowulf. The Guardian. Retrieved 3 December Beowulf: A New Verse Translation. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The New York Times.]
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