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1.Beowulf (Signet Classics)Beowulf (Signet Classics)
from Signet Classics
Price: $4.95

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This book is absolutely terrible! Everyone's grandmother would be ashamed to know the language they use. It seems like a rated r book. A very disgusting read, so much talk about this person named Grendel who is portrayed as a cannibal. There is so much talk about blood and bones, ugh! Save yourself... more info

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2.Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions)Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions)
from W. W. Norton
Price: $13.25

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I had already bought Heaney's "A New Verse Translation" before I needed to buy this edition for a university class. That said, if you're only looking for a translation of the poem with no frills, buy the "New Verse Translation" because it's got the text in parallel with the original Anglo-Saxon. But... more info

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3.Beowulf: A New Verse TranslationBeowulf: A New Verse Translation
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price: $16.50

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This is such a beautiful translation of the story of Beowulf that all others pale by comparison. Seamus Heaney outdoes himself in his choices and combinations of words that convey more than meaning. They convey emotion, imagery, sound. The dragon "rippled down the rock, writhing with anger" and it... more info

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4.Beowulf (Broadview Literary Texts Series)Beowulf (Broadview Literary Texts Series)
from Broadview Press
Price: $12.56

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As good as the Heaney is in presenting Beowulf as a sublime work of art, this more humble work of scholarship deserves equal applause for meticulously faithful rendering the original text. Indulge in Heaney, but fly to Liuzza for the Beowulf that needs no interpretation and no embellishment.

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5.Beowulf the Warrior (Living History Library)Beowulf the Warrior (Living History Library)
from Bethlehem Books
Price: $9.95

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This handy edition of Beowulf has the virtue of being easily approachable by an average reader, whereas some of the other translations I've seen have almost been like reading the original Anglo-Saxon itself. The translation reads easily yet retains the flavor and rhythms of the ancient epic.more info

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6.Beowulf (Dover Thrift Editions)Beowulf (Dover Thrift Editions)
from Dover Publications
Price: $2.50

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I wanted to read Beowulf before seeing the movie, so I decided to listen to this audio edition of it, and I really liked it. It has all the elements of a great fantasy story such as great heroes and kings and horrible monsters. The performance by Robertson Dean was excellent. His voice matched the... more info

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7.Beowulf (Oxford World s Classics)Beowulf (Oxford World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $9.95

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I own, and have read, a couple of dozen translations of "Beowulf," and have probably read half that many more; and that is a fraction of those published. Despite suggestions on the Amazon page that this version by Charles Kennedy is a new, or at least recent, translation, it is not one of the... more info

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8.The Earliest English Poems (Penguin Classics)The Earliest English Poems (Penguin Classics)
from Penguin Classics
Price: $11.70

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One of the characteristic aspects of Old English/Anglo-Saxon poetry is that it is highly alliterative; done in short measures with a break (the most common pattern), the use of alliteration can almost drive one to distraction until one gets into the rhythm and process of the metrical sounds.more info

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9.Beowulf: A Prose Translation, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions)Beowulf: A Prose Translation, Second Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
from W. W. Norton
Price: $9.40

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A very useful book on a cult poem in English literature, maybe the founding poem of English literature. The translation of the Anglosaxon text is altogether good because nearly word for word. Yet it contains some imperfections, or some untranslatable - and improperly rendered - elements. For example... more info

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10.[no image]Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode
from Houghton Mifflin Company

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For all of you Middle Earth fans, the appendices in "The Lord of the Rings" were just games. This is the real thing.
Tolkien was a heavyweight scholar before he published a word of fiction. In his admittedly narrow academic circle, he was a famous man before ever there was a Hobbit. This book... more info

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