Title: Beowulf
Author: Heaney, Seamus (trans.)
Published by: Faber & Faber
Year: 2000 (paperback edition)
First published: Faber & Faber, 1999
Date reviewed: 07.01
ISBN: 0-571-20376-0

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 in the 20th century.