Beowulf (Illustrated) : The Old English Epic Poem

from greeniezona

Okay, I had absolutely no prior experience with the Beowulf story somehow before this book. I knew there was a monster? That the original was Old English and it took place in the North? That was really somehow it. I'd always intended to read the Seamus Heaney translation someday, but when I heard...

from jonbrammer

In his preface, Seamus Heaney refers to the critical tradition of treating Beowulf less as a work of literature and more as a catalog of anthropological, historical and ethnic information. As the first long piece of Old English epic poetry, it carries with it a lot of intrinsic value as an histor...

from greeniezona

Okay, I had absolutely no prior experience with the Beowulf story somehow before this book. I knew there was a monster? That the original was Old English and it took place in the North? That was really somehow it. I'd always intended to read the Seamus Heaney translation someday, but when I heard...

from jonbrammer

In his preface, Seamus Heaney refers to the critical tradition of treating Beowulf less as a work of literature and more as a catalog of anthropological, historical and ethnic information. As the first long piece of Old English epic poetry, it carries with it a lot of intrinsic value as an histor...