Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the
elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero
who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel
and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own
country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The
poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then
having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of
this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning
of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a
resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its
surface. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the
utterance" in ?Beowulf? and its immense emotional credibility,
Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for
the contemporary reader.
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