Beowulf : Poem, Poet and Hero

an imagined pre-Viking Scandinavia is explored. "Beowulf: Poem, Poet and Hero "follows the story of the poem through its many interwoven voices from different times and places, and the poem emerges as a work of reflective beauty, its human characters full of touching pathos and wisdom, its notorious monsters still speaking to our own societies' abiding insecurities. The final section, on post-medieval responses to "Beowulf", shows how the poem has been taken up as a European cultural icon. This book restores its status as a literary masterpiece. [Publisher's Text]

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