Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Revised)

Title: Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Revised) Author: Anonymous ISBN: 9780140449310 Publisher: Penguin Classics Published: 2003 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1548804 Publisher Description: "Alexander's translation is marked by a conviction that it is possible to be both ambitious and faithful [and] ...communicates the poem with a care which goes beyond fidelity-to-meaning and reaches fidelity of implication. May it go on ... to another half-million copies." - Tom Shippey, Bulletin of the International Association of University Professors of English Beowulf is the greatest surviving work of literature in Old English, unparalleled in its epic grandeur and scope. It tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, who has laid waste to the great hall of the Danish king Hrothgar, then with Grendel'