Beowulf: A Verse Translation

Author(s): Michael Alexander (Translator, Introduction by); Penguin Group (UK) Staff

Classics

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General Information

  • : 9780140449310
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.158757
  • : 31 January 2003
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 12mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Michael Alexander (Translator, Introduction by); Penguin Group (UK) Staff
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 829/.3
  • : 192
  • : genealogy tables, maps
  • : genealogy tables, maps

More About The Product

Michael Alexander is Berry Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews. For Penguin he has translated, 'The Earliest English Poems', 'The Canterbury Tales: The First Fragment', as well as a prose translation of BEOWULF. Michael Alexander is Berry Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews. For Penguin he has translated, 'The Earliest English Poems', 'The Canterbury Tales: The First Fragment', as well as a prose translation of BEOWULF.