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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mycanid" data-source="post: 2959463" data-attributes="member: 40370">Hey there reanjr -Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!Beowulf IS a great work. (You must have read Tolkien's seminal article on this poem "The Monster and the Critics, I hope?!?) Have you read several different versions? If so I was wondering what you think of a recent version done by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney? I really like Heaney sometimes and really dislike him other times - in all the stuff he does, not just the translation of Beowulf.Milton is also incredible. Second only to Shakespeare talent wise (as far as the English language goes, I suppose), but on a level of personal enjoyment I just like the others I've mentioned earlier more I guess.Poe IS a amazing word-singer indeed. I don't know though ... somehow his stuff never really "grabbed" me as much as it has others (and here I mean content wise).I have tried to read Dante before and just find him a difficult read. Dunno....Anyway, thanks for posting. Bring it on guys (and girls - amazing that the ladies haven't stuck in their two cents in here) ....</blockquote>