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When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley

their unlikely relationship blossoms

David Farrier examines the enduring marks of modern civilization: plastic adrift in the oceans

as when it was written during the Cold War

Beowulf ismail ideas and responses to theBeowulf is one of the earliest surviving poems in a modern European language, composed in England before the Norman Conquest. As a social document, it offers a vivid portrait of a feudal world of heroes and monsters, blood and triumph, life and death. As art, it stands aloneresonant with beauty and power for over a thousand years. In this dynamic translation, Burton Raffel captures the noble simplicity and strength of the anonymous Anglo Saxon poet.