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2. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation - Wikipedia

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   Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (also known as Heaneywulf [1]) 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 .

3. The Norton Anthology of English Literature - Wikipedia

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   The fifth edition in 1986 included the addition of the full texts of James Joyce's "The Dead" and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. The sixth edition, published in 1993, included Nadine Gordimer and Fleur Adcock. The seventh edition added Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall ...

4. Seamus Heaney - Wikipedia

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   Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume.

5. Translating Beowulf - Wikipedia

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   Here, Beowulf sets sail for Heorot in the poet David Wright's popular and frequently reprinted Penguin Classics prose version, [15] and in Seamus Heaney's prize-winning [16] verse rendering, with word-counts to indicate relative compactness:

6. Finders Keepers (Heaney collection) - Wikipedia

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   In the preface, Heaney states his editor, Paul Keegan, encouraged him to create the book. Numerous essays in the book were previously published in earlier collections, namely 1980 Preoccupations, [2] 1988 The Government of the Tongue, 1995 The Redress of Poetry, and the 1989 collection of "Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature" given in Emory University titled The Place of Writing.

7. 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature - Wikipedia

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   The 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Irish poet Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." [ 1 ] He is the fourth Irish Nobel laureate after the playwright Samuel Beckett in 1969.