In the mid-1980s the editors of The Norton Anthology of English Literature invited Seamus Heaney to translate Beowulf. He was tempted to try his hand, he said, partly because of a fondness for “the ...
In 2007 I was invited to the critics’ preview of Robert Zemeckis’s motion-capture Beowulf movie at the IMAX ... done by Tolkien in the 1920s were published in 2014, but it is Seamus Heaney’s 1999 ...
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The Atlantic’s January Cover Story: Caitlin Flanagan on What the Poet Seamus Heaney Gave HerShe writes: “Seamus gave me the one thing I desperately needed growing up in that crazy family: my certificate of belonging.” In 1970, Heaney arrived in California with his family to spend the ...
The late Irish poet Seamus Heaney reads from his own translation of Beowulf.
The heroic warrior Beowulf. The epic poem Beowulf ... by such notable writers as William Morris, JRR Tolkien and Seamus Heaney - but why has it survived and what resonance does it have today?
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