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 of the 21st century. Why becomes less of a ...

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 more ways than ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The works that Whishaw will read - including excerpts from Beowulf and Virgil's ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. As seen in a new collection, “The Translations of Seamus Heaney,” the Nobel laureate was a prolific and skilled interpreter of other ...

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 Old ...

As the title suggests, this new collection from the 1995 winner of the Nobel Prize is a study in balance. Heaney reveals how simple things, such as a thimble or a swing, can hold the weight of history ...

Within the confines of a cramped rehearsal room, the stirring story of the warrior Beowulf rolls off the tongue of award-winning actor Johnny Lee Davenport. As Davenport describes preparing for his ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information New Hibernia Review/ Iris Éireannach Nua: A Quarterly Record of Irish Studies presents plainly argued scholarship on all aspects of ...

What is the opposite of poetry? What slows the spark and puts sludge in the veins? What deadens the language? What rears up before you with livid and stupefying power—in the middle of the night, in ...

In a lecture called “Frontiers of Writing,” Seamus Heaney remembered an evening he spent as the guest of an Oxford college in May 1981. A “quintessentially Oxford event,” he called it: He attended ...