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 ...

Within the confines of a cramped rehearsal room, the stirring story of the warrior Beowulf rolls off the tongue of award-winning actor Johnny Lee Davenport. As Davenport describes preparing for his ...

Johnny Lee Davenport (rear), Rachel Wiese, Rebecca Lehrhoff, Jesse Garlick and Amanda Gann in "Beowulf" at the Poets' Theatre. (Courtesy Andrew Brilliant/Brilliant Pictures/Poets' Theatre) You have to ...

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 ...

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 Old ...

Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf, just out in paperback, has become one of poetry’s rare success stories, selling 200,000 copies in hardcover in the United States and reaching its 18 th printing ...

Professors, students, family, and friends came together on Thursday to remember the life of former Harvard English professor, Harvard poet-in-residence, and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Seamus ...

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 ...

As an Irish man living abroad, the poet has cropped up again and again in different times and places of my life ...

J.R.R. Tolkien used his scholarly familiarity with ancient storytelling modes to create a world so vast it spills off of the ...