Beowulf by Chris McCully Will Harris Girling (Fitzcarraldo)

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Beowulf by Chris McCully Will Harris Girling (Fitzcarraldo)Beowulf the earliest surviving English epic was written down at some point between the eighth and the early eleventh centuries. The poems authors are unknown. It has many times been translated, recently and notably by Seamus Heaney. Any translation is a reading. Chris McCully reads Beowulf as an epic written in English using all the complex metrical conventions of its time, as well as distinctive epic tropes including sea crossings, oracular