Poetry Month

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Updated February 9, 2026
Westchester Library System Mount Pleasant Public Library
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Beowulf : a new verse translation
Heaney, Seamus
Paper Book
A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible...

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