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The Best of Writers and Company
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The Best of Writers and CompanyThe Best of Writers and Company

Carol Shields Eleanor Wachtel is one of the English-speaking world's most respected interviewers. This book, celebrating her show's twenty-five-year anniversary, presents her best conversations from the show, including Jonathan Franzen, Alice Munro, J.M. Coetzee, Zadie Smith, W.G. Sebald, Toni Morrison, Seamus Heaney, and nearly a dozen others who share their views on process and the writing life. Eleanor Wachtel has been host of CBC Radio's Writers & Company since its inception in 1990.
 
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Tags: Writers, Wachtel, Company, Eleanor, nearly, Heaney
Beowulf: A new verse translation by Seamus Heaney
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Beowulf: A new verse translation by Seamus Heaney pdf + mp3Beowulf: A new verse translation by Seamus Heaney pdf + mp3

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface.
 
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Tags: Beowulf, Heaney, Grendel, Seamus, familiar, translation
Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination
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Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern ImaginationAn excellent collection... breaks new ground in many areas. Should make a substantial impact on the discussion of the contemporary influence of Anglo-Saxon Culture'. Conor McCarthy, author of Seamus Heaney and the Medieval Imagination Britain's pre-Conquest past and its culture continues to fascinate modern writers and artists. From Henry Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader to Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, and from high modernism to the musclebound heroes of comic book and Hollywood, Anglo-Saxon England has been a powerful and often unexpected source of inspiration, antagonism, and reflection.
 
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Tags: Anglo-Saxon, Seamus, Imagination, Heaney, Culture
Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland
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Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of IrelandShakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland

Focusing on plays (Richard II, Henry V, and Hamlet) which appear prominently in the writing of the Irish nationalist movement of the early twentieth century, this study explores how Irish writers such as Sean O’Casey, Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, James Joyce, and Seamus Heaney resisted English cultural colonization through a combination of reappropriation and critique of Shakespeare's work.
 
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Tags: Shakespeare, Irish, Heaney, resisted, English, Ireland, Cultural, Colonization
Seamus Heaney: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide (Bloom's Major Poets)
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Seamus Heaney: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide (Bloom's Major Poets)Seamus Heaney: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide (Bloom's Major Poets)

Seamus Heaney has been called the most important poet since Yeats. Much of his work portrays the intensity of the Irish experience. Study the poet's work with this text, including "North," "Singing School," "Glanmore Sonnets," "The Harvest Bow," "Ugolino," "Station Island," and "The Haw Lantern."
 
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Tags: Study, Seamus, Heaney, Island, Station, Major, Bloom