It's strange and unexpected, but also appropriate and heartening, that Beowulf—ground zero for literature in English—would become a bestseller at the dawn of the 21st century. Why becomes less of a ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The works that Whishaw will read - including excerpts from Beowulf and Virgil's ...

Harry Potter, it turns out, is not invincible after all, although it did take a 1,300-year-old Scandinavian legend tag-teaming with a Nobel Prize-winning poet to deal the fictional wizard his ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. As seen in a new collection, “The Translations of Seamus Heaney,” the Nobel laureate was a prolific and skilled interpreter of other ...

A s summer wanes in Central Park, I remember winter of a year ago, when I taught Old English for the first time in a decrepit Tudor hall on Lexington Avenue. During one class session, a little gray ...

Seamus Heaney’s upbringing in Northern Ireland meant he was variously claimed as both an Irish and a British poet, but there was never any doubt where his true identity lay. He set poetry anthologists ...

It was an unseasonably warm night, and the upper room of the white clapboard building on Kirkland Street was lit by candles and decorated with a dozen pumpkins ready for carving. The Sanctum, as the ...

A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert has said. A major new volume of the late writer's work brings together his published and ...