Title: Clear translation, roomy edition
Product review: The hardcover edition gives ample margin space for notes, a classy layout (the title and page number run along the bottom margin, ghosted enough to write over, in a bold, simple font), and parallel texts of the Old English and Heaney's translation. Heaney's English is unadorned; he preserves the half-measure of the original, where each line is composed of two half-lines. Heaney achieves this without obscuring the meanings or creating a choppy tone. At times the translation may seem too plain and straightforward, but it serves as an excellent translation for students and readers wishing to add Beowulf to their canon. Grove City College currently uses this translation in its British Literature class.
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