Beowulf - new translation read by Seamus Heaney (Audiobook)

Beowulf: A New Translation, read by Seamus Heaney [Audiobook] Faber / Penguin Audiobooks | 1999 | ISBN: 0141801239 | 2 Hrs 45 Mins | MP3 | 101 MB Product Description: This tale celebrates the hero, Beowulf, who goes to Denmark and slays the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother. He later becomes the king of Geatland, and in old age meets death in combat with a dragon. What could be a more promising poetic project than the greatest of early English poems, Beowulf, newly translated by arguably the greatest of living poets writing in English, Seamus Heaney? The literary pedigree of this great fabular epic in the hands of Nobel Laureate Heaney matches Ted Hughes' award-winning rewrite of Ovid's Metamorphosis, Tales from Ovid. Heaney has chosen the plain, prosaic yet subtly cadenced vernacular of his Northern Irish roots as the poetic voice into which he renders this famous Anglo-Saxon fabular epic of a dragon-slaying Danish warrior. The result is an engaging evocation of the highly alliterative, densely metaphorical texture of Anglo-Saxon verse, which is famously hard to capture in modern English poetic forms. "It's narrative elements may belong to a previous age but as a work of art it lives in the present," writes Heaney of this tale of monstrous, murderous Grendel, heroic, kingly Beowulf, blood-feuds, dragon-slaying and spiritual grace. The very plain-spokenness of Heaney's translation makes it admirably easy to read and understand, whilst rendering an often true translation at a galloping narrative pace. Heaney's Beowulf opens up one of the most famous founding epics of European literature to a modern world of new readers. - James Barry Please seed to at least 1:1 Enjoy

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degsey (2009-06-08)

Thanks to those who have helped seed...

 only1joe (2009-06-18)

Good to see you back uploading Degsey. Keep up the good work.
Everyone should seed back their download to help keep this and all degsey's torrents alive.
Joe

degsey (2009-06-19)

Tx Joe for your support....have been offline for a week...but will be back with some more soon...

brianxxx (2009-06-23)

Read by Shameful Heiney?? WTF?! lol
Just kidding...nice upload!

Ctizzle6713 (2009-08-02)

SEEED PLZ :) will reseed 3:1

plageous (2010-11-18)

I'll try to seed this at least 1:1, but i have yet to seed a single byte after having finished downloading it in about 10 minutes

who4life (2012-09-27)

thanx so much!

Movienut117 (2014-01-05)

thanks a ton for keeping seeding this guys! was a great listen! Cheers!