Author: Alfred John WyattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beowulf
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Beowulf
Author: Alfred John WyattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beowulf
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A Beowulf Handbook
Author: Robert E. BjorkPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803212374
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The most revered work composed in Old English, Beowulf is one of the landmarks of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights into all major aspects of this wondrous poem and its scholarly tradition. Each chapter provides a history of the scholarly interest in a particular topic, a synthesis of present knowledge and opinion, and an analysis of scholarly work that remains to be done. Written to accommodate the needs of a broad audience, A Beowulf Handbook will be of value to nonspecialists who wish simply to read and enjoy Beowulf and to scholars at work on their own research. In its clear and comprehensive treatment of the poem and its scholarship, this book will prove an indispensable guide to readers and specialists for many years to come.
Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript
Author: Kevin S. KiernanPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472084128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Takes the crowning work of medieval Britain into the twenty-first century
Beowulf and The fight at Finnsburg
Author: Friedrich KlaeberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beowulf
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Beowulf
Author: Alfred John WyattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beowulf
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Beowulf and The fight at Finnsburg
Author: Fr. KlaeberPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5876655392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
Beowulf
Author: Alfred John WyattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Critical Companion to Beowulf
Author: Andy OrchardPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 0859917665
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
This is a complete guide to the text and context of the most famous Old English poem. In this book, the specific roles of selcted individual characters, both major and minor, are assessed.
Co-operative Bulletin
Author: Pratt Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Beowulf: complete bilingual edition including the original anglo-saxon edition + 3 modern english translations + an extensive study of the poem + footnotes, index and alphabetical glossary
Author: AnonymousPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8074849643
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
This carefully crafted ebook: “Beowulf: complete bilingual edition including the original anglo-saxon edition + 3 modern english translations + an extensive study of the poem + footnotes, index and alphabetical glossary” contains 5 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Beowulf is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. The poem's existence for its first seven centuries or so made no impression on writers and scholars, and besides a brief mention in a 1705 catalogue by Humfrey Wanley it was not studied until the end of the eighteenth century, and not published in its entirety until the 1815 edition prepared by the Icelandic-Danish scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the help of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall (in Heorot) has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland in Sweden and later becomes king of the Geats. After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants bury him in a tumulus, a burial mound, in Geatland. The numerous different translations and interpretations of Beowulf turn this monumental work into a challenge for the reader. This ebook contains 5 books in one ebook: 1) By Anonymous, edited by Alfred John Wyatt: "Beowulf". This is the anglo-saxon original version based on the autotypes (facsimilies) in Julius Zupitza’s edition of 1882. 2) By John Lesslie Hall: "Beowulf - An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem". This is a 1892 translation of Beowulf into modern english with notes and comments. 3) By William Morris: "The Tale of Beowulf - Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats". This is an 1895 translation of Beowulf into modern english with notes and comments. 4) By: Francis Barton Gummere: "Beowulf". This is a 1910 translation of Beowulf into modern english , with notes and comments. 5) By: Raymond Wilson Chambers: "Beowulf - An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn".