Beowulf: A Verse Translation: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

Used this book for a Medieval class. Used pretty much all of the essays with the text. Good translation. Very helpful book. Beowulf is very interesting.

I tried reading this in the old English without success. Seamus' translation is seamless and almost reads like prose. There are also criticisms at the end by noted scholars approaching the work from different angles. It is the best translation I've found.

I am an academic and love the amount of detail and authoritative research goes into each book. Though Norton isn't an exhaustive history of this text, it is a phenomenal starting point.

Great translation with useful, accessible secondary material.

This is the last time I will purchase a Norton Critical Edition.You would think that for the price they charge for the Kindle edition, it would be ! proofreadThe formating is unreadable, and this is the third NCE Kindle edition I bought that was garbage.