Beowulf [Paperback]

Before there wasGame of Thrones, there wasBeowulf...
 
SONG OF BATTLE AND KINGS
 
Beowulfis one of the earliest extant poems in a modern European language, composed in England before the Norman Conquest. As a social document this great epic poem is invaluable—reflecting a feudal world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory, life and death. As a work of art, it is unique.Beowulfrings with beauty, power, and artistry that have kept it alive for a thousand years. The noble simplicity ofBeowulf's anonymous Anglo-Saxon singer is recaptured in this vivid translation by Burton Raffel.
 
Translated and with an Introduction by Burton Raffel
and an Afterword by Roberta FrankTranslatorBurton Raffelhas taught English, classics, and comparative literature at universities in the United States, Israel, and Canada. His books include translations ofBeowulf,The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar,From the Vietnamese,Ten Centuries of Poetry,The Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam(with Alla Burago),Poems from the Old English, andThe Annotated Milton. Mr. Raffel practiced law on Wall Street and taught in the Ford Foundation's English Language Teacher Training Project in Indonesia.
 
Roberta Frank,Marie Borroff Professor of English and Linguistics at Yale University, works in all aspects—literary, historical, and archaeological—of early England and Scandinavia. She has written widely onBeowulf, including “A Scandal in Toronto: The Dating ofBeowulfa Quarter-Century On” (2007).US