When I learned that the Irish poet Seamus Heaney had passed away I made a long overdue trip to the local bookstore to purchase a copy of his Beowulf translation. I had little knowledge of the man or ...

Tolkien, who was a professor of Anglo-Saxon English, completed his own translation of Beowulf in 1926. Irish poet Seamus Heaney's 1999 translation became a bestseller, and children's author ...

The late Irish poet Seamus Heaney reads from his own translation of Beowulf.