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 ...

So, read Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf. Unless you can read Old English. In which case, read the original Beowulf. And after you’re done with that, read John Garnder’s Grendel.

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... Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV.

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 ...

The Poets' Theatre stages Seamus Heaney's adaptation of "Beowulf." Ed Siegel wishes it were as emotionally gripping as it is intellectually engaging.

Irish poet Seamus Heaney has died in Dublin at the age of 74. He was one of the world's best-known poets. In 1995 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Seamus Justin Heaney was born April 13, 1939, into a Catholic farming family in rural County Derry in Northern Ireland. There seemed no preordination of his literary success: His father kept and ...

Seamus Heaney was real. Were he a fictional character, however, we likely would call him unrealistic, his life story and his career too good to be true. Like Robert Frost and W. H. Auden, but ...