{"product_id":"beowulf-and-other-old-english-poems-9780812222753","title":"Beowulf and Other Old English Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds, and fidelity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd in Craig Williamson's splendid new version, this often translated work may well have found its most compelling modern English interpreter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliamson's \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e appears alongside his translations of many of the major works written by Anglo-Saxon poets, including the elegies The Wanderer and The Seafarer, the heroic Battle of Maldon, the visionary Dream of the Rood, the mysterious and heart-breaking Wulf and Eadwacer, and a generous sampling of the Exeter Book riddles. Accompanied by a foreword by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on Anglo-Saxon history, culture, and archaeology, Williamson's introductions to the individual poems as well as his essay on translating Old English, texts transport us back to the medieval scriptorium or ancient mead hall to share an exile's lament or herdsman's recounting of the story of the world's creation. From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom, to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, the world becomes a place of rare wonder in Williamson's lines. Were his idiom not so modern, we might almost think the Anglo-Saxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing after a silence of a thousand years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Craig Williamson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812222753\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCraig Williamson is the Alfred H. and Peggi Bloom Professor of English Literature at Swarthmore College. He is editor and translator of A Feast of Creatures, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Tom Shippey is Professor Emeritus of English at St. Louis University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39825967939699,"sku":"9780812222753","price":42.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_25d6f19a-1dad-4836-ad4a-6798e586b36c.jpg?v=1644540007","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/beowulf-and-other-old-english-poems-9780812222753","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}