Published in April 2016 issue of Prospect Magazine
Although primarily lauded for his original poems, the late Seamus Heaney—Nobel Prize winner, Oxford and Harvard professor, globally beloved poet—was also an enormously accomplished translator, particularly from ancient languages. Among his considerable achievements were a fresh and lyrical new version of Beowulf, and a rich interpretation of Robert Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid.
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