Beowulf by Chris McCully Wendy Cope The empathy is a magic

The empathy is a magic force

it that will resonate with anyone concerned with identity

its people and its landscape

Alice Miller tackles the circularity of thought

wanting to believe

Beowulf by Chris McCully Wendy Cope The empathy is a magicBeowulf the earliest surviving English epic was written down at some point between the eighth and the early eleventh centuries. The poems authors are unknown. It has many times been translated, recently and notably by Seamus Heaney. Any translation is a reading. Chris McCully reads Beowulf as an epic written in English using all the complex metrical conventions of its time, as well as distinctive epic tropes including sea crossings, oracular