From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of De…
"Presents the prose translation of the Old English epic that Tolkien created as a young man, along with selections from lectures on the poem he gave later in life and a story and poetry he wrote in the style of folklore on the poem's themes."
"From Tolkien's creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail shirts as they beached their ship on the coas…
Presents the prose translation of the Old English epic that Tolkien created as a young man, along with selections from lectures on the poem he gave later in life and a story and poetry he wrote in the style of folklore on the poem's themes.
From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of De…
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating comme…
A prose retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the hero Beowulf, who killed the monster Grendel.
A prose retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the hero Beowulf, who killed the monster Grendel.
A prose retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the hero Beowulf, who killed the monster Grendel.
Tells the story of life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon warrior-aristocrat, in his three great battles with supernatural monsters.
Tells the story of life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon warrior-aristocrat, in his three great battles with supernatural monsters.
Oud-Engels episch gedicht
This translation conveys the artistry and eloquence of the eighth century Old English poem, Beowulf, which is set in the heroic societies of fifth-century Scandinavia.
Beowulf, the major surviving poem in Old English, is composed in a language that is rich but often difficult. This fully annotated edition makes the poem more accessible in its original language, while at the same time providing the materials necessary for its detailed study at …
