Beowulf by Raffel, Burton (9781618950130)

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Beowulf

by Raffel, Burton

Paperback - English

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.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

1618950134

EAN

9781618950130

Publisher

BIBLIOTECH PR

Publication Date

01 Jan 2012

Pages

104

Weight (kg)

0.16

Dimensions (cm)

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.6

About Author

Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southwestern Louisiana and author of many books, including Artists All (Penn State, 1991) and The Art of Translating Poetry (Penn State, 1988). He is the translator of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel (1990), winner of the 1991 French-American Foundation Translation Prize; Balzac's Pere Goriot (1994), and a forthcoming new version of Cervantes's Don Quijote.