"Beowulf" perhaps our most widely translated window into our Anglo- Saxon past, has become somewhat clouded over the years. ... The intent of the following content is to provide criticism relating two separate translations of "Beowulf". ... Seamus Heaney's "Beowulf" was derived by the Irish scholar after he was recognized and granted status as Nobel laureate. ... Heaney does a fine job bringing "Beowulf" and its themes to the less experienced reader, and his words have feel, but it truly lacks the flair of the lost language. ... It is best to come to personal conclusions regarding ...

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The poems Judith and Beowulf were incased in three other works of prose but represented the earliest wholly vernacular works in what would establish the English canon. ... A "howl" is a prolonged instinctive animal cry and Ginsberg's poem forcefully depicts the sense of a "sudden, angry eruption of instincts long thwarted, of the release of excluded human and literary energies"(Breslin, 227). "Howl" violated all the artistic canons of the period and provoked a literary, social, and even legal scandal. ...

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