Beowulf
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Average rating3.5
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Average rating3.5
"Accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right." --New York Times Book Review "Excellent ancillary materials in this critical edition make a potentially alienating text and culture accessible and engaging." --Tim Melnarik, California State University, San Bernardino
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I actually really enjoyed this.
It had some good moments and was interesting enough in general. It's also nice how at certain points it becomes very clear that you're reading a poem; the rhythm of it just stands out sometimes (a better intellectual might get it the whole way through but whatever, I noticed sometimes and it was nice), but the poetism (???) never takes away from the narrative. It kind of does everything I expect a story that precedes year 1000 to do, but I didn't mind the obvious foreshadowing (do you even call it that when it's obvious?), or the fact that I knew from the beginning what would happen to the hero (we all do, like duh), but it was still enjoyable, so Kudos.
