The Translations of Seamus Heaney were the last recorded words

were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce

Amelia Earhart

but this digital paradise soon reveals its own struggles between angels and demons

First published in 2001

The Translations of Seamus Heaney were the last recorded wordsThe complete translations of the poet Seamus Heaney, a Nobel laureate and prolific, revolutionary translator. Seamus Heaneys translation of Beowulf, published in 1999, was immediately hailed as an undisputed masterpiece, something imperishable and great (James Wood, The Guardian). A few years after his death in 2013, his translation of Virgils Aeneid Book VI caused a similar stir, providing a remarkable and fitting epilogue to one of the great poetic