- English poetry (collections), old english, ca. 450-1100, Poetry, Dragons, Heroes
"Beowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures--a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel's monstrous mother, and a dragon--and then dies, mortally wounded during his last encounter.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and epic.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Stephen Mitchell
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English, ang
- ISBN
- 9780300228885
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