A great one gone

[patrick_vecchio]

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[sahlah]

Lovely voice - I sat and listened to some of the Beowulf today on Youtube...

[patrick_vecchio]

I way way too young when I tried to read Beowulf: elementary school, I think. And then there was the Woody Allen line in Annie Hall: "Don't take any course where you have to read Beowulf." Heaney's version was on the reading list for a grad-level Early English course I took maybe five years ago. I didn't have much hope, but it didn't take me long to realize that I was reading work by a master. I'm going to have to pull the book off of the cellar bookshelves and give that YouTube stuff a listen.

[vivitalia]

I heard him speak at AWP in Boston last March. He was a wonderful speaker and a truly breathtaking poet. A great loss, for sure.

[patrick_vecchio]

I'm envious.