Beowulf: In Blank Verse by Richard Hamer #Bloodaxebooks the first English poet

the first English poet

and this’ – referring to an earlier edition of this book – ‘is the true body of his work’

' Ted Hughes

The book focuses on the extraordinary development of war experience into the familiarity of the period which is ‘now and England’

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Beowulf: In Blank Verse by Richard Hamer #Bloodaxebooks the first English poetThe Anglo Saxon epic Beowulf tells the story of the hero's slaying of three fabulous monsters, set against the historical background of sixth century Scandinavian wars and dynasties. Its alliterative and metrical rules are complex, and many previous translators have attempted to replicate them. Here, blank verse has been used, as being more suitable for the less inflected and freer syntax of modern English, and therefore offering a more familiar and