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A version of Sophocles' Philoctetes that tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to realise they cannot win the Trojan war without Philoctetes' invincible bow, and turn back to seek his help.

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" comes to life in this gripping rendition that reminds listeners that the work was truly meant to be heard not read. Heaney "captures the sense of Old English poetry without adhering slavishly to its roots.IThe result is a "Beowulf" of rough elegance and emotional directness rendered in a voice both ancient and familiar" ("The Onion").

Seeing Things" (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in "The New York Times Book Review, " "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven." Along with translations from the "Aeneid" and the "Inferno, " this book offers several poems about Heaney's late father.