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 ...

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

In reading poetry, nothing compares with the dark opulence of “Beowulf.” And no other poem presents so many difficulties. “Beowulf,” the epic story of a warrior who defeats two monsters only to meet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I was a freshman at Stonehill College, every incoming English major had to read Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf." There are many translations of the Anglo-Saxon epic, but the Seamus ...