The Translations Of Seamus Heaney Av Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. But now, finally, the project has been returned to, resulting in...

<p>Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the Anglo-Saxon poem <b>Beowulf</b> is one of the great Northern epics and a classic of European literature. In his new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both...

Here the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, and the idea of the north allows the poet to contemplate the violence on his home ground in relation to memories of the Scandinavian...