Tuesday, March 19, 2013

 
Beowulf
translated by Seamus Heaney
 W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
New York 2008
 
 
 
"... seems one way for an Irish poet to come to terms
with that complex history of conquest and colony,
absorption and resistance, integrity and antagonism,
a history which has to be clearly acknowledged
by all concerned in order to render it ever more
'willable forward / Again and again and again.' "
 
-from the introduction by S.H.
 
 
 


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