MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 02908cam a2200421Ii 4500
001 10838926
005 20140722145629.0
008 140319s2014 mau b 000 0 eng d
020 $a9780544442788
020 $a0544442784
024 $a40023732408
035 $a(OCoLC)873729342
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn873729342
035 $a(NNC)10838926
040 $aBTCTA$beng$cBTCTA$dNTD$dYDXCP$dCXP$dOCLCO$dLMR$dOI6$dNTD$dVLR$erda$dMEU$dKCP$dOCLCO
050 4 $aPR1585$b.T65 2014
082 04 $a829.3$223
100 1 $aTolkien, J. R. R.$q(John Ronald Reuel),$d1892-1973,$eauthor.
245 10 $aBeowulf :$ba Translation and Commentary : Together with Sellic Spell /$cby J.R.R. Tolkien ; edited by Christopher Tolkien.
250 $aFirst U.S. edition
264 1 $aBoston, MA :$bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt,$c2014.
300 $axiv, 425 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
546 $aText in English.
520 $aFrom his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel's terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot.
520 $aBut the commentary in this book includes also much from those lectures in which, while always anchored in the text, he expressed his wider perceptions. He looks closely at the dragon that would slay Beowulf "snuffling in baffled rage and injured greed when he discovers the theft of the cup"; but he rebuts the notion that this is "a mere treasure story", "just another dragon tale". He turns to the lines that tell of the burying of the golden things long ago, and observes that it is "the feeling for the treasure itself, this sad history" that raises it to another level. "The whole thing is sombre, tragic, sinister, curiously real. The 'treasure' is not just some lucky wealth that will enable the finder to have a good time, or marry the princess. It is laden with history, leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song, but not beyond the reach of imagination."
505 0 $aIntroduction to the translation -- Beowulf -- Notes on the text of the translation -- Introductory notes to the commentary -- Commentary -- Sellic Spell -- The lay of Beowulf.
630 00 $aBeowulf.
650 0 $aEpic poetry, English (Old)
650 0 $aMonsters$vPoetry.
650 0 $aDragons$vPoetry.
700 1 $aTolkien, Christopher,$eeditor.
700 12 $aTolkien, J. R. R.$q(John Ronald Reuel),$d1892-1973.$tSellic spell.
730 02 $aBeowulf.$lEnglish.
852 00 $bglx$hPR1585$i.T65 2014
852 00 $bbar$hPR1585$i.T65 2014