Beowulf, a new verse rendering

"It is obvious that Douglas Wilson enjoyed himself immensely in rendering this Old English epic into the alliterative verse form of the original, and as a reader I found that this enjoyment energized the text. Beowulf is a story par excellence, and the most salient trait of Wilson's version is that it flows beautifully." --Leland Ryken, professor of English at Wheaton College and author of The Christian Imagination and the Christian Guides to the Classics series