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...smarter-than-you yuppie consumerism than about the books that people really read. I don't know anyone who finished "Infinite Jest." And do you remember the fuss over Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" (a bestselling dust-collector if there ever was one)? And who read Seamus Heaney's new translation of "Beowulf" other than this year's Whitbread Prize judges? "Harry Potter," on the other hand, will be read over and over and passed from person to person. This book takes you back to a time in your childhood when you might spend an entire Saturday...
Then I went home. I was sorry to leave the Emerald Isle, but also, in truth, eager to catch up on e-mail and the web, newspapers and magazines, television and videos. No matter what Seamus Heaney says, a bog's communication, information and entertainment options leave something to be desired. I was ready for home...
...among those who are astonished that Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf has made the best-seller list. Beowulf is obviously being bought by hordes of former English majors who still feel guilty about not having finished it the first time it was assigned...
Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, will be among this year's commencement speakers, Harvard's press office announced Wednesday...
Nobel Laureate Seamus J. Heaney recited his own poetry and read excerpts from his new best-selling translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf yesterday evening in Lowell Lecture Hall...