TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mitchell, Stephen 
TI  - Beowulf
T2  - Reader in Classics
SN  - 9780300228885
AV  - PR1583 
U1  - 829/.3 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New Haven, CT
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Beowulf
KW  - fast
KW  - Adaptations
KW  - gnd
KW  - English
KW  - Epic poetry, English (Old)
N1  - A note on pronunciation; Map: the geography of Beowulf
N2  - A widely celebrated translator’s vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpiece. Beowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures—a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel’s monstrous mother, and a dragon—and then dies, mortally wounded during his last encounter. If the definition of a superhero is “someone who uses his special powers to fight evil,” then Beowulf is our first English superhero story, and arguably our best. It is also a deeply pious poem, so bold in its reverence for a virtuous pagan past that it teeters on the edge of heresy. From beginning to end, we feel we are in the hands of a master storyteller. Stephen Mitchell’s marvelously clear and vivid rendering re-creates the robust masculine music of the original. It both hews closely to the meaning of the Old English and captures its wild energy and vitality, not just as a deep “work of literature” but also as a rousing entertainment that can still stir our feelings and rivet our attention today, after more than a thousand years. This new translation—spare, sinuous, vigorous in its narration, and translucent in its poetry—makes a masterpiece accessible to everyone
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