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...course, did not suddenly come to their senses about the merits of a manuscript composed sometime late in the first millennium. They gave their prize--and an instant spot at the top of British best-seller lists--to a new verse translation of Beowulf by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney, winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: There Be Dragons | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...introduction to the Feb. 13 episode of Touched by an Angel, which focuses on the relations of Irish Catholic and Protestant teens. The capstone to this vocal odyssey comes in March, when Neeson's taped voice will be heard reading the poetry of W.B. Yeats, Arthur O'Shaughnessy and Seamus Heaney while Irish legs are flailing in Riverdance--On Broadway. There's nothing like legitimate theater to recharge an actor's batteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 7, 2000 | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

Gordimer appropriates for the title of Living, a compilation of some of her non-fiction essays and speeches, the corniest line in fellow Nobel-laureate's Seamus Heaney's corniest poem: Once in a lifetime/...hope and history rhyme...

Author: By Joshua Perry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nobel Winner Rests on Laurels | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...under the mentorship of Katherine McCanless, a non-resident tutor in Adams House. McCanless is unabashedly passionate about the literature she loves to print and insists on working "from the text out." Her own recent projects include the printing of eleven lines from a new translation of 'Beowulf' by Seamus Heaney. McCanless has been delighted with the enthusiasm of her students, but laments that restrictions on time and funding limit the number of people that can work in the press...

Author: By By J.L. Martin, | Title: closerlook: Impressions in the Bowels of Adams | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

Gordimer appropriates for the title of Living, a compilation of some of her non-fiction essays and speeches, the corniest line in fellow Nobel-laureates Seamus Heaneys corniest poem: Once in a lifetime/...hope and history rhyme...

Author: By Joshua Perry, | Title: Nobel Winner Rests on Laurels | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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