Over 1,000 years ago, an anonymous Germanic writer gave us the most enduring poem in the English language. This poem was “Beowulf,”an epic spanning over 3,000 lines of alliterating Old English.

I've been reading the Seamus Heaney translation of "Beowulf." As a young graduate student in English I thought I might become a medievalist, so took a course in Old English and read some of "Beowulf" ...

On the top floor of Margaret Jacks Hall, the Stanford English Department performed a sly act of transformation on Thursday: It turned a conference room into a mead hall. What appeared initially to be ...