Beowulf
by Tom Shippey
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Proporcionadopor el ed.: "Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless story of a hero's fight against monsters and sets it against a complex background of political intrigue and tribal warfare. Situated in sixth-century Scandinavia, the poem brings to life a magnificent world that fuses history with fantasy. Tom Shippey's new translation of Beowulf, reflecting a lifetime of engagement with the poem, makes its story clearer show more and more compelling than it has ever been. The original Old English text of Beowulf is included along with an extensive and innovative commentary, which guides the reader passage-by-passage through the poem and its criticism. In addition to the text, translation, and commentary, this volume contains an extensive bibliography, a translator's preface, and an appended essay by Tom Shippey on 'Tolkien and Beowulf-a lifelong involvement'" show lessTags
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A short book (only 64 pages) designed to help students of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf to understand it better and get more out of reading it. It isn't one of those books that spoonfeeds the student so much that they don't need to read the poem itself, but if you want information on Beowulf's cultural background, subject matter, structure and use of language, then this book should prove useful.
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Tom Shippey taught at Oxford University at the same time as J. R. R. Tolkien & with the same syllabus, which gives him an intimate familiarity with the works that fueled Tolkien's imagination. He subsequently held the chair of English language & medieval literature at Leeds University that Tolkien had previously held. He currently holds the Walter show more J. Ong Chair of Humanities at St. Louis University in Missouri. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Beowulf
- People/Characters
- Beowulf; Grendel; Grendel's mother
- Important places
- Heorot, Denmark
- Disambiguation notice
- This is a study of the Angli-Saxon poem, Beowulf. Please do not combine the two works.
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