While living in Belfast during the early 1950s, Stephen said Heaney published some poems under the penname Incertus - which ...

In James Merrill’s Collected Poems, all the “Previously Uncollected Poems” appear bunched together at the end, thus depriving ...

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 ...

Previously unpublished poems by Seamus Heaney have been included in a new collection of his work available from today.

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 ...

What literary text could seem further from reality these days than Beowulf — that approximately 1,500-year-old Anglo Saxon verse epic about a Scandinavian hero fighting monsters that’s known mainly by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...