Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s notable translations include Sweeney Astray (1983; Heaney’s version of the Middle Irish epic Buile Suibhne), The Cure at Troy (1991; a translation of Sophocles’ Philoctetes), The Midnight Verdict (1993; based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Brian Merriman’s The Midnight Court), and Beowulf (1999; a translation of the classic Old English epic). Heaney’s version of Beowulf became an unexpected international bestseller.
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