Beowulf: A new verse translation by Seamus Heaney pdf + mp3
Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface.
Tennyson was nearly fifty when he began to write his major Arthurian poem, the Idylls of the King. From his earliest years the legends of King Arthur, "the greatest of all poetical subjects" as he called them, had fascinated and haunted him. As a child he had been familiar with Malory; throughout his life he read all available medieval writing related to thestory of Camelot.
Illustrations in full color. The popular rhyming nursery game comes to Sesame Street, inviting the youngest readers to identify familiar characters and objects and explore early-learning concepts such as colors, shapes, and sizes.
The Tudors are a national obsession. From TV bodice-rippers to Booker-prize winning novels and scholarly journals, they are our favourite family in history. Their story is packed with famous and thrilling tales: Henry VIII and his wives,Elizabeth the Virgin Queen, the Princes in the Tower, the Armada. But, as Leanda de Lisle shows in this exciting new history, if we look beyond these familiar headlines, much that is new and surprising is revealed.
This series helps students practice their writing skills in a simple and systematic way by providing topics that are familiar to target students and useful expressions for daily life. The series consists of 4 books; Diary (Book 1), Letter (Book 2), Book Report (Book 3) and Essay (Book 4), and each book consists of 6 topics familiar to students. By following the organized practices and exercises, students will have a good command of writing in English from a single sentence and paragraph to diaries, letters, book reports and essays.
