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...Heaney said that the "abiding power of the work itself" played a role in his decision to author a new interpretation of the 3,000-plus line text...
...Heaney returned throughout his talk to the idea that a poet's linguistic voice is inextricably linked to his or her cultural background...
...Diction and identity and history and religion and culture are all intimately bound up," Heaney said. "I am poetically more sure-footed with [idiomatic] words as the paving of my text...
Indeed, it was as much for his words of literary and poetic wisdom as to hear selections from his Beowulf that drew such a large audience to Heaney's lecture, the first in a series of six by the poet which will span the month of October...
Jerome L. Martin'01 said he attended the lecture because of his high esteem for Heaney's work in general...