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Beowulf

Meet the Editor

Seamus Heaney (Translator) is the author of many volumes of poetry, criticism, and translation. One of the leading poet’s of his generation, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.

Daniel Donoghue (Editor) is Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of Style in Old English Poetry: The Test of the Auxiliary and Lady Godiva: A Literary History of a Legend.