num_pages: 128
description: This reprint of Morgan's popular and well-respected 1952 modern English translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic captures a taut expression of the poem's themes of danger, voyaging, displacement, loyalty, and loss. Morgan provides a fluid, modern voice from this medieval masterwork while retaining a clear authenticity, making it highly accessible to the contemporary reader.
language: English
title: Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English
titlecomplete: Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English
characters: Breca, Grendel, Onela, Unferth, Wiglaf, Wealhtheow, Beowulf, Hrothgar
genres: High School, Mythology, Read For School, Fantasy, School, Literature, Poetry, Classics, Medieval, Fiction
ratings_count: 295720
places: Denmark, Geatland, Sweden
publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.