So, read Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf. Unless you can read Old English. In which case, read the original Beowulf. And after you’re done with that, read John Garnder’s Grendel.

I started reading Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf on the way to my first cross-country meet in 8th grade. I didn’t know anything about the story—I didn’t even know that the language printed on the ...

Seamus Heaney, Translator: Beowulf. It's strange and unexpected, but also appropriate and heartening, that Beowulf—ground zero for literature in English—would become a bestseller at the dawn ...

BEOWULF: A New VerseTranslation By Seamus Heaney Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 213 pages, $25 In reading poetry, nothing compares with the dark opulence of “Beowulf.” And no other poem pre… ...

Seamus Heaney died today at age 74. He was considered Ireland’s foremost poet since William Butler Yeats and he won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. His translation of “Beowulf” made the ...

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 ...

The Poets' Theatre stages Seamus Heaney's adaptation of "Beowulf." Ed Siegel wishes it were as emotionally gripping as it is intellectually engaging.

A Stephen King novel has nothing on the first poem written in the English language. “Beowulf,” written in the seventh century (give or take), is a monster tale of epic proportions in mo… ...

Seven years ago, the translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic “Beowulf” by Irish poet Seamus Heaney made literary history when it became a fixture on the best-seller lists. Not bad for a 1,000-word ...

Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet whose verse captured the transcendent power, darkness and humanity of his conflicted homeland, died Friday at a hospital in Dublin. He was 74.

‘Beowulf’ and Beyond: A Poet Who Embraced Translation. As seen in a new collection, “The Translations of Seamus Heaney,” the Nobel laureate was a prolific and skilled interpreter of other ...

‘Beowulf’ and Beyond: A Poet Who Embraced Translation. As seen in a new collection, “The Translations of Seamus Heaney,” the Nobel laureate was a prolific and skilled interpreter of other ...