When I learned that the Irish poet Seamus Heaney had passed away I made a long overdue trip to the local bookstore to purchase a copy of his Beowulf translation. I had little knowledge of the man or ...
Poet Seamus Heaney eventually became somewhat of a second father to Caitlin Flanagan, guiding her through the years and ...
Tolkien, who was a professor of Anglo-Saxon English, completed his own translation of Beowulf in 1926. Irish poet Seamus Heaney's 1999 translation became a bestseller, and children's author ...
The late Irish poet Seamus Heaney reads from his own translation of Beowulf.