Author: Charles W. Eliot
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1616401737
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Translator names not noted above: Eirikr Magnusson, William Morris, and Whitley Stokes. Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XLIX features the earliest works of European literature, epic heroic poems of kings and dragon slayers that created the foundations of much of the literature and popular entertainment that came in the centuries after: [ the Old English Beowulf, the best-known work of Anglo-Saxon tradition [ The Song of Roland, the oldest surviving work from medieval France [ The Destruction of D Derga's Hostel, from Old Irish mythology [ The Story of the Volsungs, from the Icelandic sagas [ Niblungs, from Germanic tradition.
Epic and Saga - Beowulf Et Al
Author: Charles W. Eliot
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1616401737
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Translator names not noted above: Eirikr Magnusson, William Morris, and Whitley Stokes. Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XLIX features the earliest works of European literature, epic heroic poems of kings and dragon slayers that created the foundations of much of the literature and popular entertainment that came in the centuries after: [ the Old English Beowulf, the best-known work of Anglo-Saxon tradition [ The Song of Roland, the oldest surviving work from medieval France [ The Destruction of D Derga's Hostel, from Old Irish mythology [ The Story of the Volsungs, from the Icelandic sagas [ Niblungs, from Germanic tradition.
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1616401737
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Translator names not noted above: Eirikr Magnusson, William Morris, and Whitley Stokes. Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University's longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot's belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XLIX features the earliest works of European literature, epic heroic poems of kings and dragon slayers that created the foundations of much of the literature and popular entertainment that came in the centuries after: [ the Old English Beowulf, the best-known work of Anglo-Saxon tradition [ The Song of Roland, the oldest surviving work from medieval France [ The Destruction of D Derga's Hostel, from Old Irish mythology [ The Story of the Volsungs, from the Icelandic sagas [ Niblungs, from Germanic tradition.
Epic and Saga
Epic and Saga
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Beowulf
The Deeds of Beowulf
Author: John Earle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beowulf
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beowulf
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Beowulf and the Bear's Son
Author: J. Michael Stitt
Publisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Saga of Beowulf
Author: R. Scot Johns
Publisher: Lightning Source Incorporated
ISBN: 9780982153802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
"The Saga of Beowulf" is the first complete novelization of the epic 10th century Old English poem "Beowulf." Based on ten years of research utilizing numerous historical sources, R. Scot Johns' riveting adaptation is "breathtaking in scope and relentless in pace," chronicling the tragic wars of the rising Nordic nations, the endless blood-feuds of their clans, battles with mythic creatures in an ancient heroic age, and the final, futile struggle of one man against the will of Fate that made of him a legend.
Publisher: Lightning Source Incorporated
ISBN: 9780982153802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
"The Saga of Beowulf" is the first complete novelization of the epic 10th century Old English poem "Beowulf." Based on ten years of research utilizing numerous historical sources, R. Scot Johns' riveting adaptation is "breathtaking in scope and relentless in pace," chronicling the tragic wars of the rising Nordic nations, the endless blood-feuds of their clans, battles with mythic creatures in an ancient heroic age, and the final, futile struggle of one man against the will of Fate that made of him a legend.
Beowulf
Heroic Identity in the World of Beowulf
Author: Scott Gwara
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047425022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Readers of Beowulf have noted inconsistencies in Beowulf's depiction, as either heroic or reckless. Heroic Identity in the World of Beowulf resolves this tension by emphasizing Beowulf's identity as a foreign fighter seeking glory abroad. Such men resemble wreccan, "exiles" compelled to leave their homelands due to excessive violence. Beowulf may be potentially arrogant, therefore, but he learns prudence. This native wisdom highlights a king's duty to his warband, in expectation of Beowulf's future rule. The dragon fight later raises the same question of incompatible identities, hero versus king. In frequent reference to Greek epic and Icelandic saga, this revisionist approach to Beowulf offers new interpretations of flyting rhetoric, the custom of "men dying with their lord," and the poem's digressions.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047425022
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Readers of Beowulf have noted inconsistencies in Beowulf's depiction, as either heroic or reckless. Heroic Identity in the World of Beowulf resolves this tension by emphasizing Beowulf's identity as a foreign fighter seeking glory abroad. Such men resemble wreccan, "exiles" compelled to leave their homelands due to excessive violence. Beowulf may be potentially arrogant, therefore, but he learns prudence. This native wisdom highlights a king's duty to his warband, in expectation of Beowulf's future rule. The dragon fight later raises the same question of incompatible identities, hero versus king. In frequent reference to Greek epic and Icelandic saga, this revisionist approach to Beowulf offers new interpretations of flyting rhetoric, the custom of "men dying with their lord," and the poem's digressions.
Beowulf
Author: Charles William Kennedy
Publisher: New York ; London [etc.] : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195024357
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A lengthy introduction discussing historical background accompanies the poem about the monster slayer Beowulf.
Publisher: New York ; London [etc.] : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195024357
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A lengthy introduction discussing historical background accompanies the poem about the monster slayer Beowulf.