Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation is a verse translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf into modern English by the Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney. It was published in 1999 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux and Faber and Faber, and won that year's Whitbread Book of the Year Award. The book was widely but not universally welcomed by critics, scholars, and poets in Britain and America. The poet Andrew Motion wrote that Heaney had made a masterpiece out of a masterpiece, while David Donog
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Translation of Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
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