Beowulf
By: translated into verse by William Ellery Leonard and illustrated by Lynd Ward.
Contributors: Leonard, William Ellery, 1876-1944, tr.; Ward, Lynd, 1905- illus.
Publisher: For the members of the Heritage Club
Published: 1939
Place of publication: New York
Language: ang; eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Epic poetry, English (Old); Monsters -- Poetry; Dragons -- Poetry
Genres: Poetry.
Description: Composed toward the end of the first millennium, 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 dies in old age 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. - Amazon
Notes: Bibliography: p. viii-ix.