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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harry Potter, it turns out, is not invincible after all, although it did take a 1,300-year-old Scandinavian legend tag-teaming with a Nobel Prize-winning poet to deal the fictional wizard his ...

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 ...

The story of Beowulf is old. Really old. The epic poem, which has been translated and re-translated for centuries, is the Anglo-Saxon tale of a warrior who’s celebrated for his victorious bouts with ...

This article is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. There will soon be a huge volume of collected Poems of Seamus Heaney (1,100 ...

Heaney has long been internationally recognised as the greatest Irish poet since WB Yeats A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert ...