LEADER 00000nim a22005055a 4500 003 MWT 005 20191125111502.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 150902s2000 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 9781598871524 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1598871528 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ rcb_9781598871524_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT11419342 037 11419342|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 04 829/.3|222 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 130 0 Beowulf.|lEnglish. 245 10 Beowulf|h[Hoopla electronic resource]. 250 Abridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bHighBridge,|c2000. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (2hr., 15 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 Read by Seamus Heaney. 520 A New York Times Bestseller and Whitbread Book of the Year. Heaney's performance reminds us that Beowulf, written near the turn of another millennium, was intended to be heard not read. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and lives to old age before dying in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the end of the twentieth century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. While an abridgment of Heaney's full translation of Beowulf, Heaney prepared this abridgment himself to read for the BBC program from which this recording is taken. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 Heroes|vPoetry. 650 0 Epic poetry, English (Old)|vTranslations. 650 0 Monsters|vPoetry. 650 0 Dragons|vPoetry. 651 0 Scandinavia|vPoetry. 655 7 Epic poetry.|2gsafd 700 1 Heaney, Seamus. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 11419342?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ rcb_9781598871524_180.jpeg