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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Kept alive for more than 13 centuries, "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. This edition of Raffel's acclaimed translation features a new Afterword. Revised reissue.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Before there was <i>Game of Thrones</i>, there was <i>Beowulf</i>...</b><br> <b> </b><br><b> SONG OF BATTLE AND KINGS</b><br><b> </b><br><i> Beowulf</i> is one of the earliest extant poems in a modern European language, composed in England before the Norman Conquest. As a social document this great epic poem is invaluable--reflecting a feudal world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory, life and death. As a work of art, it is unique. <i>Beowulf</i> rings with beauty, power, and artistry that have kept it alive for a thousand years. The noble simplicity of <i>Beowulf</i>'s anonymous Anglo-Saxon singer is recaptured in this vivid translation by Burton Raffel.<br><b> </b><br><b> Translated and with an Introduction by Burton Raffel</b><br><b> and an Afterword by Roberta Frank</b><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Translator <b>Burton Raffel</b> has taught English, classics, and comparative literature at universities in the United States, Israel, and Canada. His books include translations of <i>Beowulf</i>, <i>The Complete Poetry and Prose of Chairil Anwar</i>, <i>From the Vietnamese</i>, <i>Ten Centuries of Poetry</i>, <i>The Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam </i>(with Alla Burago), <i> Poems from the Old English</i>, and <i>The Annotated Milton</i>. Mr. Raffel practiced law on Wall Street and taught in the Ford Foundation's English Language Teacher Training Project in Indonesia. <p/> <b>Roberta Frank</b>, <b> </b>Marie Borroff Professor of English and Linguistics at Yale University, works in all aspects--literary, historical, and archaeological--of early England and Scandinavia. She has written widely on <i>Beowulf</i>, including "A Scandal in Toronto: The Dating of <i>Beowulf</i> a Quarter-Century On" (2007).

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