num_pages: 106
description: Composed some time between the middle of the seventh and the end of the tenth century of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the important Northern epics and a classic of European literature.  In his new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true, line by line, to the original poem, and an expression, in its language and music, of something fundamental to his own creative gift.
language: English
title: Beowulf
titlecomplete: Beowulf
characters: Grendel, Hrothgar, Unferth, Wealhtheow, Wiglaf, Beowulf, Breca, Onela
genres: Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Read For School, High School, School, Literature, Mythology, Poetry, Medieval
ratings_count: 295542
places: Sweden, Geatland, Denmark
publisher: Faber and Faber