To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Stars, spattered out through lifeless night from end to end, like jewels scattered in a dead king's grave, tease, torment my wits… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may… — Brand Blanshard Copy Share Image
In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
We took Beowulf, the epic poem in Old English, and put it right together with John Gardner's contemporary retelling. If you bring… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
“And a young prince must be prudent like that, giving freely while his father lives so that afterwards, in age when fighting… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
“Beowulf is usually seen as a masculine text, but I think that's somewhat unfair. The poem, while (with one exception) not structured… — Maria Dahvana Headley Copy Share Image
“Eleven or twelve hundred years ago the poem Beowulf explored the contradictions of treasure: jewels and gold that when they have been… — Suzanne Keene Copy Share Image
Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted, Once, that nothing in the world would ever Destroy your fame; fight to keep it, Now,… — Burton Raffel Copy Share Image
“4. The whole Icarus-flying-too-near-the-sun-and-plummeting-out-of-the-sky thing? That's real. Same with the Sirens who lure you to death with their irresistible song, and the… — Todd Hanson Copy Share Image
“Beowulf stands out as a poem which makes extensive use of this kind of figurative language. There are over one thousand compounds… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“A ring-whorled prow rode in the harbour, ice-clad, outbound, a craft for a prince. They stretched their beloved lord in his boat,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
