Seamus Heaney

Broschiertes Buch

Beowulf

Beschreibung

Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegaic narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel, and, later, from Grendel's mother.

Autor

Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, appeared in 2008; Human Chain, his last volume of poems, was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He died in 2013. His translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI was published posthumously in 2016 to critical acclaim, followed in 2018 by 100 Poems, a selection of poems from his entire career, chosen by his family.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
• Main - bilingual edition
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9780571230419
• ISBN-10: 0571230415
• Artikelnr.: 22292347