Beowulf and other Old English poems / edited and translated by Craig Williamson ; with a foreword by Tom Shippey.

Overview: The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors:	Williamson, Craig, 1943- (Editor, Translator)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English English, Old (ca. 450-1100)
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011.
Series:	Middle Ages series.
Subjects:	Beowulf > Translations into English. Monsters > Poetry. Dragons > Poetry. Epic poetry, English (Old) > History and criticism. Epic poetry, English (Old) > Translations into English. Scandinavia > Poetry. Beowulf. Dragons. Epic poetry, English (Old) Monsters. Scandinavia. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Poetry. Translations.