Beowulf (Signet Classics)

Raffel, Burton [Translator]

ISBN 10: 0451527402 / ISBN 13: 9780451527400

Published by Signet Classic, 1999

About this Item

No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. edge wear, cover creases; The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, "Beowulf" is an epic that reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood, victory, and death. This repackaged Signet classic Includes a Glossary of terms.

Seller Inventory # 060204

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beowulf (Signet Classics)
• Publisher: Signet Classic
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451527402
• ISBN 13: 9780451527400
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 5 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

The oldest extant poem in a modern European language chronicles a feudal newly Christianized world still populated by the monsters and demons of the ancient world.

About the Author

Burton Raffel has taught English, Classics, and Comparative Literature at universities in the United States, Israel, and Canada. His books include translations of Beowulf, Horace: Odes, Epodes, Epistles, Satires, The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar, From the Vietnamese, Ten Centuries of Poetry, The Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich, Mandelstram (with Alla Burago), and Poems From the Old English and The Annotated Milton; several critical studies, Introduction to Poetry, How to Read a Poem, The Development of Modern Indonesian Poetry, and The Forked Tounge: A Study of the Translation Process; and Mia Poems, a volume of his own poetry. Mr. Raffel practiced law on Wall Street and taught in the Ford Foundation’s English Language Teacher Training Project in Indonesia.