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I've been reading the Seamus Heaney translation of "Beowulf." As a young graduate student in English I thought I might become a medievalist, so took a course in Old English and read some of "Beowulf" ...

A few days ago my friend Julie confessed she had never read Bridge to Terabithia. To quote Blanche Devereaux, "I am stunned! Just stunned! Stunned is the only way to describe how ... stunned I am!" I ...

No mask, no physical distance, no hand sanitizer: I just climbed onto a narrow ledge in our family library and took down an old book from the top shelf. Holiday rereading: it might be the only part of ...

Over 1,000 years ago, an anonymous Germanic writer gave us the most enduring poem in the English language. This poem was “Beowulf,”an epic spanning over 3,000 lines of alliterating Old English.

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 other side ...

Classic novels like Great Expectations and Anna Karenina may have seemed boring when they were taught in school. But a new book says these classics actually provide plenty of reading pleasure for the ...