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Beowulf : The Oldest English Epic
Overview
This unique poetic rendering, available for the first time in a paperback edition, brings the experience of this earliest extant English poem closer to the modern reader. It uses the four-beat alliterative measure without attempting to reproduce the conventional Old English half-line. Consonance and assonance have also been freely used to retain the stylistic feeling of the original while keeping the language readable and contemporary.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780195024357
- ISBN-10: 0195024354
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish Date: October 1978
- Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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