The Adventures of Beowulf

by David Breeden

Beowulf, written in Old English sometime before the Tenth Century CE, describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century. A rich fabric of fact and fancy, Beowulf is the oldest surviving epic in British literature. This is not a line-by-line translation of the original poem but an attempt to recreate the poem in free verse so that no words must be added for the sake of formal meter or rhyme. In addition, free verse allows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1456547925
• ISBN13: 9781456547929
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.4" x 5.1"