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Beowulf Michael Alexander

Beowulf By Michael Alexander

Beowulf by Michael Alexander


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Summary

This heroic Old English poem is set on the North Sea coasts of the fifth and sixth centuries. Against a background of feast and feud, its hero defeats the monster Grendel, but dies defending his people against a dragon.

Beowulf Summary

Beowulf: A Verse Translation:Revised Edition by Michael Alexander

BEOWULF stands at the head of English literature; a poem of historical interest and epic scope. Although the first manuscript of BEOWULF dates from around the year 1,000, it is thought that the poem existed in its present form from the year 850.Beowulf's adventures themselves stand in front of the wide historical canvas of 5th and 6th century Scandinavia. Against this heroic background of feuding and feasting, Beowulf first kills the monster Grendel and her mother, and later defends his people against a dragon in a battle that leaves them both mortally wounded.

About Michael Alexander

Michael Alexander is Berry Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews. For Penguin he has translated, 'The Earliest English Poems', 'The Canterbury Tales: The First Fragment', as well as a prose translation of BEOWULF.

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GOR003332667
9780140447880
0140447881
Beowulf: A Verse Translation:Revised Edition by Michael Alexander
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
20010927
208
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