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Beowulf--A Poem

Beowulf--A Poem

Scheil, Andrew

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Series: Past Imperfect

Literary CriticismMythology & FolkloreFiction Anthologies

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ISBN10: 1641893915
ISBN13: 9781641893916
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
Published: Feb 28 2022
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.30 Width: 4.40 Depth: 6.90
Language: English
Why should anyone, aside from specialist historians and philologists, read Beowulf? This book presents a passionate literary argument for Beowulf as a searching and subtle exploration of the human presence. Seamus Heaney praised Beowulf as a work of the greatest imaginative vitality how is that true? The poem's current scholarly obsessions and its popular reception have obscured the fact that this untitled and anonymous 3182-line poem from Anglo-Saxon England is a powerful and enduring work of world literature. Beowulf is an early medieval exercise in humanism: it dramatizes, in varied and complex ways, the conflict between human autonomy and the mind-forg'd manacles of the world. The poem is as relevant and moving to any reader today as it was during the early Middle Ages. This book serves both as an invitation and introduction to the poem as well as an intervention in its current scholarly context.

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