"Beowulf is my name.”" June 4, 2022 – 52.0% "“hand-to-hand … - Seamus Heaney

"Beowulf is my name.”"
June 4, 2022 –
52.0% "“hand-to-hand
is how it will be, a life-and-death
fight with the fiend. Whichever one death fells
must deem it a just judgement by God."

Seamus Heaney

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Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator. In 1995 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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