Informationen zum Autor Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist ! his first collection! appeared in 1966! and since then he has published poetry! criticism and translations which have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. District and Cirle is his twelfth collection of poems! and his first new collection for five years. Klappentext Heaney's masterpiece about a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the monster Grendel. A bi-lingual edition of Seamus Heaney's prize-winning bestseller, Beowulf. Zusammenfassung Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegaic 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.

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A bi-lingual edition of Seamus Heaney's prize-winning bestseller, Beowulf.

Auteur
Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection, appeared in 1966, and since then he has published poetry, criticism and translations which have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. District and Cirle is his twelfth collection of poems, and his first new collection for five years.

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Heaney's masterpiece about a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the monster Grendel.

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Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegaic 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.