Reviews

"Liuzza takes account of recent scholarly research and provides a commentary, a collection of supporting texts, and an excellent introduction to this 'Christian poet's bittersweet elegy for the doomed heroic life.' His account of the peculiarities of Old English poetic style is particularly helpful." - Frank Kermode, The New York Review of Books"Liuzza has provided an invaluable volume for scholars and students of Old English in general, and Beowulf in particular. The translation is reliable and accurate, empathetic to the original, and thoroughly readable. Together with the accompanying detailed and accessible introduction, and the extensive range of additional texts and research tools, this is an exemplary, complete edition that deserves the respect and attention of Anglo-Saxonists everywhere." - Dr. Elaine Treharne, University of Leicester"This close and readable translation, put together by a scholar who knows so much about the poem and its craft, remakes the old tale in a new regi