Beowulf

A New Verse Translation

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by Seamus Heaney

W. W. Norton and Co.

Due/Published February 2001, 208 pages, paper

ISBN 0393320979

New in paper (F00)

"The Irish Nobel laureate has at least made this canonical text... readable. Even compulsively readable. This is a feat roughly comparable to any of Beowulf's own encounters with demon or dragon. Little wonder, then, that the translation was recently awarded Britain's Whitbread Prize."--Michael Dirda , The Washington Post

 "[Heaney is] the one living poet who can rightfully claim to be the Beowulf poet's heir."--Edward Mendelson, The New York Times Book Review

'nuff said!