Fluent, enjoyable and often masterful, this 11th book of verse ... the hero Beowulf arrives from over the ocean to wrestle the beast. He saves the Danes, who... Heaney (Field Work and ...

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 late Irish poet Seamus Heaney reads from his own translation of Beowulf.