Word: beowulf
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...also read excerpts from his new best-selling translation of the epic tale Beowulf...
...joked about Beowulf's current success, but called Heaney's work "a treasure horde of poetry more valuable than any treasure horde of Anglo-Saxon gold he has made us see," before calling Heaney forward...
Nobel Laureate Seamus J. Heaney recited his own poetry and read excerpts from his new best-selling translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf yesterday evening in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...hall filled early with eager students, writers and professors--some with new copies of Beowulf in hand and awaiting autographs, others re-reading their dog-eared copies of his collected works...
...Heaney closed the reading with selections from Beowulf , his listeners rose in a standing ovation, to which Heaney humbly responded with gestures to sit down...