What literary text could seem further from reality these days than Beowulf — that approximately 1,500-year-old Anglo Saxon verse epic about a Scandinavian hero fighting monsters that’s known mainly by ...

Like many other liberal arts students of the time, I first encountered “Beowulf” in a survey course of English Literature in college. Appreciated as the earliest poem in an English language all but ...

One does not casually read “Beowulf.” It takes commitment. It also takes a good translation, and few were better at that than Oxford don J.R.R. Tolkien, better known now as the author of “The Lord of ...

<> at Archiginnasio on April 3, 2012 in Bologna, Italy. I started reading Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf on the way to my first cross-country meet in 8th grade. I didn’t know anything about the story—I ...

More than a decade before writing The Hobbit, Tolkien completed his translation from the Old English of this epic poem, whose influence on his Lord of the Rings Trilogy is well known. Tolkien ...

JRR Tolkien's translation of the 11th-century poem Beowulf is to finally be published. The Lord of the Rings author's version of the epic fantasy story will be released for the first time since it was ...

JRR Tolkien's translation of the epic Beowulf is to be published for the first time almost 90 years after its completion. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary will be published in May, giving Tolkien ...

Among hanging ivy, Asian sculptures and dozens of model ships, thousands of books fill wooden shelves at Burton Raffel’s home, where the renowned literary scholar and retired University of Louisiana ...

WRITING THE SEVEN HABITS OF Highly Effective Dragon-Slayers was probably not what the unknown author of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf had in mind. But, hey, if they can extract leadership tips from a ...

Within the confines of a cramped rehearsal room, the stirring story of the warrior Beowulf rolls off the tongue of award-winning actor Johnny Lee Davenport. As Davenport describes preparing for his ...