Beowulf
A companion to the epic poem and its presentation by English faculty during Spring Arts & Culture Festival 2023
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Beowulf (trans. by Francis B. Gummere)From the Poetry Foundation
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Beowulf: Dual Language and New Verse Translation
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Of unknown date, and surviving in a tenth-century manuscript, Beowulf is the tale of a young Geatish hero and his struggle with three deadly foes, beginning with the dread monster Grendel, who has been devouring warriors in the hall of the Danish King in their sleep. The most important Old English poem, and the first known major poem written in a European vernacular, Beowulf is a unique and compelling mix of sixth-century historical events, Christian commentary, Germanic myth and Anglo-Saxon culture. The poem is presented here in a dual-text format with a new translation by multi-award-winning translator J.G. Nichols.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781847497949Publication Date: 2019-08-27 -
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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.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780300228885Publication Date: 2017-10-24 -
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King Hrothgar of Denmark has a problem: though his land prospers, his great mead-hall is plagued nightly by a horrible beast, Grendel, that pillages and kills his men. Leaving his home in Sweden, the warrior Beowulf sails to the king's aid. Beowulf and his men camp in the mead-hall to wait for Grendel. When the beast attacks, Beowulf grabs him by the claw and rips his arm off, making the beast flee in defeat. But Grendel isn't the only challenge facing Beowulf and, even in his native Sweden, adventures and dangers await. Written between the 8th and 11th centuries, Beowulf is the oldest surviving epic poem written in Old English. This unabridged version is taken from the translation by published by John Lesslie Hall in 1892.
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The classic story of Beowulf, hero and dragon-slayer, appears here in a new translation accompanied by genealogical charts, historical summaries, and a glossary of proper names. These and other documents sketching some of the cultural forces behind the poem's final creation will help readers see Beowulf as an exploration of the politics of kingship and the psychology of heroism, and as an early English meditation on the bridges and chasms between the pagan past and the Christian present. A generous sample of other modern versions of Beowulf sheds light on the process of translating the poem.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781551111896Publication Date: 1999-12-01
Print Books to Borrow from NWACC Library
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Beowulf a New Verse Translation Bilingual Edition
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Call Number: PR 1583 .H43 2001ISBN: 0393320979Publication Date: 2001-02-17New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award -
Beowulf: a New Translation
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Call Number: PS 3608 .E233 B46 2020ISBN: 9780374110031Publication Date: 2020-08-25This feminist translation was named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The Guardian Longlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. Picked for Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The New Statesman. Picked for Loyalty Books' Holiday List. -
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Call Number: Graphic Novel Display - PN 6727 .H53 B46 2007ISBN: 9780763630225Publication Date: 2007-03-13This exhilarating graphic-novel edition of an ancient classic honors the spirit of the original as it attracts modern readers. -
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Call Number: PR 1585 .T65 2014ISBN: 9780544442788Publication Date: 2014-05-22The 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. -
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Call Number: PR 1583 .D6 1975ISBN: 0393044130Publication Date: 1975-01-01A Norton critical edition -
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Call Number: PR1585 .B38 1987ISBN: 0877549044Publication Date: 1988-01-01A collection of critical essays on the epic poem, arranged chronologically in the order of their original publication. -
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Call Number: PR1583 .S8 1997ISBN: 0719051460Publication Date: 1997-05-08Scholarly introduction which focuses on the values and social relevance of the poem. Explanatory notes drawing on archaeological sources. Prose translation. -
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1
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Call Number: Graphic Novel Display - PN 6726 .G73 2010ISBN: 9781609803766Publication Date: 2012-05-22Brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators. -
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From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. Picket fences divide buildings--high and gabled--and the community is entirely self-sustaining. Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outside--in lawns and on playgrounds--wildflowers seed themselves in neat rows. But for those who live surreptitiously along Herot Hall's periphery, the subdivision is a fortress guarded by an intense network of gates, surveillance cameras, and motion-activated lights. For Willa, the wife of Roger Herot (heir of Herot Hall), life moves at a charmingly slow pace. She flits between mommy groups, playdates, cocktail hour, and dinner parties, always with her son, Dylan, in tow. Meanwhile, in a cave in the mountains just beyond the limits of Herot Hall lives Gren, short for Grendel, as well as his mother, Dana, a former soldier who gave birth as if by chance. Dana didn't want Gren, didn't plan Gren, and doesn't know how she got Gren, but when she returned from war, there he was. When Gren, unaware of the borders erected to keep him at bay, ventures into Herot Hall and runs off with Dylan, Dana's and Willa's worlds collide.
Call Number: PS 3608 .E233 M47 2018ISBN: 9781925713459Publication Date: 2018 -
Beowulf (Versión Ingles - Español)
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Beowulf es un poema épico anglosajón anónimo que fue escrito en inglés antiguo en verso aliterativo. Cuenta con 3182 versos.2Tanto el autor como la fecha de composición del poema se desconocen, aunque las discusiones académicas suelen proponer fechas que van desde el siglo VIII al XII d. C. La obra se conserva en el Códice Nowell o Cotton Vitellius A.xv y, dada la fama del poema, a pesar de que convive con otras obras en el mismo manuscrito, este se ha dado en llamar Manuscrito Beowulf. Aunque el poema no tiene título en el manuscrito, se le ha llamado Beowulf desde principios del siglo XIX; se conserva en la Biblioteca Británica.Tiene dos grandes partes: la primera sucede durante la juventud del héroe gauta (o geata, en algunas traducciones, "godo") que da nombre al poema, y narra cómo acude en ayuda de los daneses o jutos, quienes sufrían los ataques de un jotun gigantesco -Grendel-, y tras matar a éste, se enfrenta a su terrible madre; en la segunda parte, Beowulf ya es el rey de los gautas y pelea hasta la muerte con un feroz dragón.
Call Number: PR 1584 .S6 .B46 2019ISBN: 9781074865993Publication Date: 2019-06-19
