{"product_id":"mitchell-tr-beowulf","title":"Mitchell, Stephen (tr.): Beowulf","description":"\u003cp\u003eYale, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: August 21, 2018\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: A widely celebrated translator's vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpiece\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures--a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel's monstrous mother, and a dragon--and then dies, mortally wounded during his last encounter. If the definition of a superhero is \"someone who uses his special powers to fight evil,\" then Beowulf is our first English superhero story, and arguably our best. It is also a deeply pious poem, so bold in its reverence for a virtuous pagan past that it teeters on the edge of heresy. From beginning to end, we feel we are in the hands of a master storyteller.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStephen Mitchell's marvelously clear and vivid rendering re-creates the robust masculine music of the original. It both hews closely to the meaning of the Old English and captures its wild energy and vitality, not just as a deep \"work of literature\" but also as a rousing entertainment that can still stir our feelings and rivet our attention today, after more than a thousand years. This new translation--spare, sinuous, vigorous in its narration, and translucent in its poetry--makes a masterpiece accessible to everyone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40679353974807,"sku":"9780300236668","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/view_archive_9d2d2af1-6dc2-42ee-bb29-413c84f5727b.jpg?v=1697661958","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/mitchell-tr-beowulf","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}