Beowulf: A New Verse Translation.

HEANEY, Seamus.

Item Number: 120433

New York: Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1999.

Early printing of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “To Elias So! Seamus Heaney 2.x.2000.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Seth Rubin.

"How did he do it? How did Seamus Heaney fashion verses, singularly handsome verses that not only capture the somber grandeur and mythic vigor of the Anglo-Saxon original, but also reflect the rhythm and timbre of the English we speak today.... This newborn translation makes accessible to everyone the first supremely great poem to be written in the English language" (Colin Campbell, Christian Science Monitor).