British Poetry and Prose: Beowulf to Blake
Author | : Robert Morss Lovett |
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Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Robert Morss Lovett |
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Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Paul Robert Lieder |
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Total Pages | : 1005 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Poetry-British |
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Author | : Paul Robert Lieder |
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Total Pages | : 736 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1938 |
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Author | : Paul Robert Lieder |
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Total Pages | : 1032 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Paul Robert Lieder |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : Sheba Blake Publishing |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 2017-04-14 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 3961892253 |
Beowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative lines. The poem is set in Scandinavia. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland (Götaland in modern Sweden) and later becomes king of the Geats. After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants cremate his body and erect a tower on a headland in his memory. The main protagonist Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, king of the Danes, whose great hall, Heorot, is plagued by the monster Grendel. Beowulf kills Grendel with his bare hands and Grendel's mother with a giant's sword that he found in her lair. Later in his life, Beowulf becomes king of the Geats, and finds his realm terrorized by a dragon, some of whose treasure had been stolen from his hoard in a burial mound. He attacks the dragon with the help of his thegns or servants, but they do not succeed. Beowulf decides to follow the dragon to its lair at Earnanæs, but only his young Swedish relative Wiglaf, whose name means "remnant of valour",[a] dares to join him. Beowulf finally slays the dragon, but is mortally wounded in the struggle. He is cremated and a burial mound by the sea is erected in his honor. Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts.
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Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1957-05-30 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780140440706 |
The greatest surviving Old English poem rendered into modern prose Beowulf stands at the head of English literature; a poem of historical interest and epic scope. Although the first manuscript of Beowulf dates from around the year 1000 CE, it is thought that the poem existed in its present form from the year 850. Beowulf's adventures themselves stand in front of the wide historical canvas of 5th and 6th century Scandinavia. Against this heroic background of feuding and feasting, Beowulf first kills the monster Grendel and her mother, and later defends his people against a dragon in a battle that leaves them both mortally wounded. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author | : John Earle |
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Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Beowulf |
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Author | : Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson |
Publisher | : W W Norton & Company Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780393974065 |
The text of this edition of Beowulf is based on the highly regarded Donaldson prose translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem.