HS LITERATURE BOOKSOURCE
Beowulf
Anonymous, Burton Raffel, Burton Raffel, Roberta Frank
List price £3.99
Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780451530967
- Published:
- 01 Oct 2016
- Publisher:
- Penguin
- Dimensions:
- 176 pages - 172 x 106 x 10mm
- Series:
- HS LITERATURE BOOKSOURCE
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As a social document this great epic poem is invaluable - reflecting a feudal world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory, life and death. As a work of art, it is unique. Beowulf rings with beauty, power, and artistry that have kept it alive for a thousand years. The noble simplicity of Beowulf's anonymous Anglo-Saxon singer is recaptured in this vivid translation by Burton Raffel.
Beowulf is one of the earliest extant poems in a modern European language, composed in England before the Norman Conquest.