Heaney, Seamus

Presents the classic poem in which a Norse hero saves Denmark's royal house from monsters, returns home to become his own people's greatest king, and then faces a murderous dragon to protect them. Presented in the original Old English with a verse translation on facing pages.

Irish poet Seamus Heaney presents his verse translation of "Beowulf," the story of a Norse hero who saves Denmark's royal house from monsters.

A selection of poems by Irish poet Seamus Heaney, drawn from throughout the first twenty-one years of his career, from 1966 to 1987.

A collection of prose writings by Nobel Prize-winning author Seamus Heaney, including lectures, radio commentaries, reviews, and autobiographical and topical essays composed between 1971 and 2001.

A collection of poems by Seamus Heaney that explore the challenges people are facing at the start of the twenty-first century.

Presents a selection of over two hundred poems by Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney, drawn from throughout his career, from 1966 through 1996.

Presents a poetic verse translation of the Old English epic "Beowulf, " which tells the story of the heroic warrior who slays a hideous monster to save the Danish people and includes an introduction, background information, explanatory annotations, contextual readings, and critical interpretations.

Presents the original BBC recording of "Beowulf, " the story of a Norse hero who saves Denmark's royal house from monsters, translated and read by Irish poet Seamus Heaney.

Twentieth-century Irish poet Seamus Heaney's verse translation of the Christian-pagan, classic Old English poem "Beowulf, " in which a Norse hero saves Denmark's royal house from monsters; provides the Old English version on facing pages and includes brief genealogies of the work's Danish, Geat, and Swedish royal families, and an introduction by Heaney.

A verse translation of the classic Old English poem "Beowulf," in which a Norse hero saves Denmark's royal house from monsters, returns home to become his own people's greatest king, and then faces a murderous dragon to protect them. Includes more than one hundred illustrations.