Beowulf' And Other Old English Poems (The Middle Ages Series),Used

Beowulf' And Other Old English Poems (The Middle Ages Series),Used

In Stock
SKU: SONG0812243455
Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
$50.53
Quantity
Add to wishlist
Add to compare

Processing time: 1-3 days

US Orders Ships in: 3-5 days

International Orders Ships in: 8-12 days

Return Policy: 15-days return on defective items

Payment Option
Payment Methods

Help

If you have any questions, you are always welcome to contact us. We'll get back to you as soon as possible, withing 24 hours on weekdays.

Customer service

All questions about your order, return and delivery must be sent to our customer service team by e-mail at yourstore@yourdomain.com

Sale & Press

If you are interested in selling our products, need more information about our brand or wish to make a collaboration, please contact us at press@yourdomain.com

The bestknown literary achievement of AngloSaxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious. And in Craig Williamson's splendid new version, this often translated work may well have found its most compelling modern English interpreter.Williamson's Beowulf appears alongside his translations of many of the major works written by AngloSaxon poets, including the elegies 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer,' the heroic 'Battle of Maldon,' the visionary 'Dream of the Rood,' the mysterious and heartbreaking 'Wulf and Eadwacer,' and a generous sampling of the Exeter Book riddles. Accompanied by a foreword by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on AngloSaxon history, culture, and archaeology, and Williamson's introductions to the individual poems as well as his essay on translating Old English, the texts transport us back to the medieval scriptorium or ancient mead hall to share an exile's lament or herdsman's recounting of the story of the world's creation. From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom, to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasurehoarding dragon, the world becomes a place of rare wonder in Williamson's lines. Were his idiom not so modern, we might almost think the AngloSaxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing after a silence of a thousand years.

⚠️ WARNING (California Proposition 65):

This product may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.

For more information, please visit www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.

Recently Viewed