Beowulf : a verse translation : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / translated by Seamus Heaney ; edited by Daniel Donoghue.

Contributor Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013, translator.

Edition Statement:Second edition.

ImprintNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]

Descriptionxxxix, 299 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Note:The text of Beowulf -- Contexts -- The Beowulf manuscript / Bruce Mitchell and Fred C. Robinson -- [Cain and Abel] / Genesis 4.1-16 - -Hall-Feasts and the Queen -- Grettir the Strong and the trollwoman -- Sigemund's exploits -- The Frisian slaughter : episode and fragment -- "What has Ingeld to do with Christ?" / Alcuin -- History of the Franks [Hygelac's raid into Frisia] / Gregory of Tours -- [Genealogy of the royal family of Wessex] / William of Malmesbury -- On the wars between the Swedes and the Geats -- Geneologies of the royal families in Beowulf -- Map : the Scandinavian setting of Beowulf -- The kingdoms and tribes of Beowulf -- Beowulf's name / R. D. Fulk and Joseph Harris -- Criticism -- Beowulf : the monsters and the critics / J. R. R. Tolkien -- The great feud : scriptural history and strife in Beowulf / Marijane Osborn -- The structural unity of Beowulf : the problem of Grendel's mother / Jane Chance -- The Beowulf poet's sense of history / Roberta Frank -- The tomb of Beowulf / Fred C. Robinson -- Archaeology and Beowulf / Leslie Webster -- The philologer poet : Seamus Heaney and the translation of Beowulf / Daniel Donoghue -- Beowulf and perception / Michael Lapidge -- "Beowulf" and the emergent occasion / Andrew Scheil.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-299).

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