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Beowulf and Other Old English Poems

Product Description: The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious...read more

By Tom Shippey (foreword by)

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9780812243451 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, June 30, 2011, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity.

Beowulf

The epic poem of war and adventure. Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language. It was composed in England four centuries before the Norman Conquest. But no one knows exactly when it was composed, or by whom, or why. As a social document this great epic reflects a feudal, newly world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death. Text: English (translation)

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Hardcover:

9781437814934 | Indypublish.Com, May 31, 2008, cover price $18.99

9781421933313 | Indypublish.Com, January 30, 2006, cover price $95.99

Paperback:

9789875507135 | Unabridged edition (Longseller S.A., November 30, 2010), cover price $7.95

9781607960539 | Lightning Source Inc, December 30, 2008, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The epic poem of war and adventure.

9781604240221 | Lightning Source Inc, August 30, 2007, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem composed around 1100 AD.

9781406804904 | Echo Library, June 30, 2006, cover price $9.90 | About this edition: Written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.

9781593082666 | Barnes & Noble, November 1, 2005, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Beowulf, by Anonymous, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

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The Beowulf Manuscript: Complete Texts and the Fight at Finnsburg

Product Description: Beowulf is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. But this volume offers something unique...read more

By R. D. Fulk (editor)

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9780674052956 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 22, 2010, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Beowulf is one of the finest works of vernacular literature from the European Middle Ages and as such is a fitting title to head the Old English family of texts published in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.

Beowulf

Product Description: Beowulf is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex...read more

By Burton Raffel

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9780870230905 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, December 1, 1971, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Striking drawings accompany this modern translation of the Old English epic depicting Beowulf's struggles to defeat a dragon

Paperback:

9780451530967 | Signet Classic, June 3, 2008, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language reflecting a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory, life and death.

9780451527400 | Reprint edition (Signet Classic, September 1, 1999), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: 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.

9789990854244 | Signet Classic, September 1, 1999, cover price $0.02

9780451627957 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, August 1, 1995), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A discussion of the origins, composition, and social and historical background of Beowulf prefaces the text of the early English epic poem

9780451626271 | New Amer Library, August 1, 1987, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, Beowulf was composed 400 years before the Norman Conquest.

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Reinforced:

9780606101400 | Demco Media, August 1, 1995, cover price $13.40 | About this edition: 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.

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9780613211949 | Turtleback Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $13.45 | About this edition: 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.

Beowulf

Based on a motion picture adapted from the Anglo-Saxon epic, retells the heroic efforts of Beowulf, son of Edgetheow, to save the people of Heorot hall from the terrible monster, Grendel.

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9780061341281 | Harper Entertainment, October 1, 2007, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Based on a motion picture adapted from the Anglo-Saxon epic, retells the heroic efforts of Beowulf, son of Edgetheow, to save the people of Heorot hall from the terrible monster, Grendel.

Miscellaneous:

9780061832994 | Harpercollins, March 17, 2009, cover price $7.99

Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre

Product Description: This is a clear and accessible account of early Germanic alliterative verse that explains how such verse was treated by the Beowulf poet. There are differences of poetic style between Beowulf and the otherwise similar verse of ancient Scandinavia and continental Europe...read more

By Geoffrey Russom

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9780521593403 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $132.00 | About this edition: This is a clear and accessible account of early Germanic alliterative verse that explains how such verse was treated by the Beowulf poet.

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9780521093095 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 8, 2009), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: This is a clear and accessible account of early Germanic alliterative verse that explains how such verse was treated by the Beowulf poet.

Anglo-Saxon England: 8

Product Description: Through close analysis and careful weighing of evidence the authors of this volume tackle a wide range of questions in Anglo-Saxon history and culture and often arrive at opinions different from those generally accepted. Contributions are made on subjects as diverse as the Anglo-Saxon settlement, early Northumbrian history, the 'weapon' vocabulary of Beowulf, world history in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a woman's stock of clothes in the mid-tenth century and vernacular preaching before 'lfric...read more

By Martin Biddle (editor), Julian Brown (editor), Peter Clemoes (editor), Helmut Gneuss (editor) and Stanley Greenfield (editor)

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9780521038652 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 15, 2007), cover price $66.00 | About this edition: Through close analysis and careful weighing of evidence the authors of this volume tackle a wide range of questions in Anglo-Saxon history and culture and often arrive at opinions different from those generally accepted.

Beowulf

By J. B. Bessinger, Jr. (narrator)

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CD/Spoken Word:

9780061374692 | Abridged edition (Caedmon Audio Cassette, October 1, 2007), cover price $12.95

Beowulf

A new horror stalks the kingdom of the Danes. Grendel has crawled from hell to lay waste to the country and devour its people. Mighty Beowulf comes forward to fight this demonic enemy. But Grendel has a powerful and deadly ally. Can Beowulf survive the rage of a fiendish mother who will destroy anyone who harms her child?

By Michael Alexander (trans)

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9780141026398 | Penguin USA, December 26, 2006, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: A new horror stalks the kingdom of the Danes.

9780140433777 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, November 1, 1995), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Provides the Old English text of the epic poem faced with a page in which almost every word is glossed.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780140862782 | Penguin/Highbridge, April 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Eighth-century in origin, composed to be recited aloud, it told its Anglo-Saxon listeners a story of their Scandanavian ancestors.

Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition

A bilingual edition of the Old English epic poem features the Old English and modern translation of facing pages and chronicles the exploits of the great hero Beowulf in his battles with supernatural monsters. Reprint.

By Howell D. Chickering (editor)

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9781400096220 | Bilingual edition (Anchor Books, February 14, 2006), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A bilingual edition of the Old English epic poem features the Old English and modern translation of facing pages and chronicles the exploits of the great hero Beowulf in his battles with supernatural monsters.

9780385062138 | Doubleday, February 1, 1977, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This presentation of the translation and the Old English Text on facing pages allows the reader to approach the first major poem in English literature in a fresh and exciting new way.

Beowulf

Each volume in a collection of affordable, readable editions of some of the world's greatest works of literature features a chronology of the author's life and career, a concise introduction containing valuable background information, a timeline of significant events, an outline of key plot points and themes, detailed explanatory notes, critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of recommended books and films.

By Frederic Will (editor)

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9781416500377 | Pocket Classics, June 28, 2005, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Each volume in a collection of affordable, readable editions of some of the world's greatest works of literature features a chronology of the author's life and career, a concise introduction containing valuable background information, a timeline of significant events, an outline of key plot points and themes, detailed explanatory notes, critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of recommended books and films.

Hero-Ego in Search of Self: A Jungian Reading of Beowulf

Product Description: In Hero-Ego in Search of Self, Judy Anne White offers a perceptive explanation for continued interest in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. Building upon the earlier work of Jeffery Helterman and John Miles Foley, she argues that the sum of all confrontations between hero and monster in Beowulf equals the process of individual psychological development identified by Carl Jung as individuation...read more

By Judy Anne White

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9780820431154 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 1, 2004, cover price $64.95 | About this edition: In Hero-Ego in Search of Self, Judy Anne White offers a perceptive explanation for continued interest in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf.

Beowolf: A Verse Translation

Product Description: Beowulf stands at the head of English literature; a poem of historical interest and epic scope. Although the first manuscript of Beowulf dates from around the year 1000 CE, it is thought that the poem existed in its present form from the year 850...read more

By Michael Alexander (editor)

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9780140449310 | Reissue edition (Penguin Classics, May 1, 2003), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Beowulf stands at the head of English literature; a poem of historical interest and epic scope.

Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf-Manuscript

Product Description: Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways. In this series of detailed studies, Andy Orchard demonstrates the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous by reconsidering the monsters of Beowulf against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology and with reference to specific Anglo-Saxon texts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Andy Orchard

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9780859914567 | Ds Brewer, July 1, 1995, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This series of detailed studies reconsiders the monsters of "Beowulf" against the background of early medieval and patristic teratology in general, and other Anglo-Saxon texts in particular, in order to demonstrate the changing range of Anglo-Saxon attitudes towards the monstrous.

Paperback:

9780802085832 | Univ of Toronto Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: Monsters and the monstrous, whether from the remote pagan past or the new world of Christian Latin learning, haunted the Anglo-Saxon imagination in a variety of ways.

The Anglo-Saxon World

Product Description: The Anglo-Saxon World introduces the Anglo-Saxons in their own words — their chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all their magnificent poems. Most of the greatest surviving poems are printed here in their entirety: the reader will find the whole of Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, and the haunting elegiac poems...read more

By Kevin Crossley-Holland (trans)

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9780851158853 | Boydell Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The Anglo-Saxon World introduces the Anglo-Saxons in their own words — their chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all their magnificent poems.

9780851151694 | Reprint edition (Univ of Rochester Pr, September 1, 1994), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The Anglo-Saxon World introduces the Anglo-Saxons in their own words -their chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms, and above all their magnificent poems.

Beowulf: A Verse Translation

Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaney’s translation "accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" (New York Times Book Review).The translation that "rides boldly through the reefs of scholarship" (The Observer) is combined with first-rate annotation. No reading knowledge of Old English is assumed. Heaney’s clear and insightful introduction to Beowulf provides students with an understanding of both the poem’s history in the canon and Heaney’s own translation process.

By Daniel Donoghue (editor)

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9789990221015 | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 30, 2001, cover price $0.02 | also contains Beowulf: A Verse Translation

9780393975802 | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 2001, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaney’s translation "accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" (New York Times Book Review).

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

Product Description: "A faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right." —New York Times Book ReviewThe national bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Award. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the classic Northern epic of a hero’s triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people...read more

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9781568959207 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, September 1, 2000), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: "A faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right.

9780374111199 | 1 edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 15, 2000), cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Presents a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother.

9789990059564 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 2000, cover price $0.02

Paperback:

9780393320978 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2001), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Presents a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother.

9789990110180 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2001), cover price $0.02

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9781439568668 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 3, 2008), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: "A faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right.

9781417666379 | Turtleback Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: Presents a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother.

Beowulf and the Dragon: Parallels and Analogues

Product Description: The vivid depiction of a dragon-fight in the Old English poem Beowulf and its relationship with other literary encounters between heroes and dragons has been the subject of much scholarly debate; yet this is the first comprehensive study of the dragon-fight in secular and hagiographical literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Christine Rauer

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9780859915922 | Ds Brewer, December 1, 2000, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The vivid depiction of a dragon-fight in the Old English poem Beowulf and its relationship with other literary encounters between heroes and dragons has been the subject of much scholarly debate; yet this is the first comprehensive study of the dragon-fight in secular and hagiographical literature.

The Four Funerals in Beowulf: And the Structure of the Poem

Product Description: It is well known that the old English poem Beowulf begins and ends with funerals and includes the third as a digression part way through. Now, for the first time, a fourth funeral (hitherto disguised as poetic imagery) is identified from archaeological evidence...read more

By Gale R. Owen-Crocker

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9780719054976 | Manchester Univ Pr, November 18, 2000, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: The old English poem "Beowulf" begins and ends with funerals and includes the third as a digression part of the way through.

Paperback:

9780719081217 | Manchester Univ Pr, December 8, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: It is well known that the old English poem Beowulf begins and ends with funerals and includes the third as a digression part way through.

Beowulf

A new version of the legend of Beowulf chronicles the epic struggle of the hero against the sinister monster, Grendel

By Kevin Crossley-Holland

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9780192797704 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 18, 1987, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A new version of the legend of Beowulf chronicles the epic struggle of the hero against the sinister monster, Grendel

Paperback:

9780192723697 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 22, 1999), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A new version of the legend of Beowulf chronicles the epic struggle of the hero against the sinister monster, Grendel

9780192721846 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1988), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A new version of the legend of Beowulf chronicles the epic struggle of the hero against the sinister monster, Grendel

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9780613211963 | Turtleback Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $22.05 | About this edition: A new version of the legend of Beowulf chronicles the epic struggle of the hero against the sinister monster, Grendel

The Beowulf Reader: Basic Readings

Product Description: This book gathers some of the most important studies from the past twenty-five years of scholarship on the greatest Old English literary work. The essays have been selected to represent the various approaches that have dominated recent Beowulf studies and to illustrate the evolution of Old English literary criticism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Peter S. Baker

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9780815336662 | 2 edition (Routledge, April 1, 2000), cover price $40.95 | About this edition: This book gathers some of the most important studies from the past twenty-five years of scholarship on the greatest Old English literary work.

Beowulf: The Fight at Finnsburh

Product Description: The finest literary work passed down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, Beowulf celebrates the existence of heroism in a dark world of feuds, violence, and uncertainty. Set in the legendary Scandinavian past, Beowulf comes to the aid of the Danish king Hrothgar by killing the terrifying monster Grendel and its vengeful mother...read more

By Kevin Crossley-Holland (trans) and Heather O'Donoghue (editor)

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9780199555291 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 15, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The finest literary work passed down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, Beowulf celebrates the existence of heroism in a dark world of feuds, violence, and uncertainty.

9780192833204 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 6, 1999, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The finest literary work passed down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, Beowulf celebrates the existence of heroism in a dark world of feuds, violence, and uncertainty.

Beowulf: An Edition With Relevant Shorter Texts

Product Description: This magnificent new edition, which includes relevant shorter texts and key illustrations, is designed specifically to help those who, while already enjoying some acquaintance with Old English, come to Beowulf for the first time. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Bruce Mitchell (editor), Fred C. Robinson (editor) and Leslie Webster (editor)

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9780631172253 | Blackwell Pub, October 1, 1998, cover price $81.95 | About this edition: This magnificent new edition, which includes relevant shorter texts and key illustrations, is designed specifically to help those who, while already enjoying some acquaintance with Old English, come to Beowulf for the first time.

Paperback:

9780631172260 | Blackwell Pub, November 9, 1998, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This magnificent new edition, which includes relevant shorter texts and key illustrations, is designed specifically to help those who, while already enjoying some acquaintance with Old English, come to Beowulf for the first time.

Beowulf: The Critical Heritage

Product Description: Beowulf is the oldest and most complete epic poem in any non-Classical European language. Our only manuscript, written in Old English, dates from close to the year 1000. However, the poem remained effectively unknown even to scholars until the year 1815, when it was first published in Copenhagen...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Andreas Haarder (editor) and T. A. Shippey (editor)

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9780415029704 | Routledge, September 1, 1998, cover price $300.00 | About this edition: Beowulf is the oldest and most complete epic poem in any non-Classical European language.

The Long Arm of Coincidence: The Frustrated Connection Between Beowulf and Grettis Saga

Product Description: Scholars in Old Norse and Old English Studies have for Years Sought to find relations between Beowulf and Grettis saga, despite great differences in the composition, time period, and country of origin of the two works. Based on some striking surface similarities, the assumption of kinship or genetically-related analogues has inspired scholars to make more and more daring conjectures regarding the actual relationship between the two works...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Magnus Fjalldal

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9780802043016 | Univ of Toronto Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Scholars in Old Norse and Old English Studies have for Years Sought to find relations between Beowulf and Grettis saga, despite great differences in the composition, time period, and country of origin of the two works.

Paperback:

9780802081285 | Univ of Toronto Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Scholars in Old Norse and Old English studies have for years sought to find connections between Beowulf and Grettis saga, despite great differences in the composition, time period, and country of origin of the two works.

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