Beowulf: Revised Edition / Edition 1

by Michael Swanton

Overview

New, up-to-date bibliography which should give this edition another twenty years of life. Excellent, scholarly introduction which focusses on the values and social relevance of the poem. Explanatory notes drawing on archaeological sources. Prose translation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719051463
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	05/08/1997
Series:	Manchester Medieval Studies Series
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	1160L (what's this?)

About the Author

Michael Swanton is Reader in English Medieval Studies at the University of Exeter.

Table of Contents

A Note on the Text and Translation, Map, Select Bibliography, Beowulf Text, Notes, Peoples and Genealogies, Glossary of Proper Names.