Book of the Week. Seamus Heaney - Beowulf "Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere." Seamus Heaney brings his writing to life as he reads from his translation of Beowulf.

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 ...

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 ...

As mentioned in Good Morning News, the renowned Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, has died. I had plenty of his poetry foisted upon me in my senior high school English class, and various obituaries and ...

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 ...

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… ...

‘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 ...

Among his considerable achievements were a fresh and lyrical new version of Beowulf, and a rich interpretation of Robert Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid. Three years after his death, Faber and ...

With the Poets’ Theatre production of “Beowulf,” food, drink, juggling, magic, and Viking-style combat will help create the atmosphere of a story told to entertain people in the dark of winter.