The Personal Column

Beowulf by Heaney, Seamus (trans.)

Publisher: Faber & Faber
Date Published: 2000 (paperback edition)
First Published: Faber & Faber, 1999
ISBN: 0-571-20376-0
Review Date: 07.01

Having scoffed at David Whyte's references to this Anglo-Saxon poem, I thought I'd better read it. Strong shades of Tolkien, which is not surprising, as he wrote possibly the most influential critique of the work of the 20th century.


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