Beowulf: An Illustrated EditionSeamus Heaney's best selling ? Beowulf? is now wedded to more than one hundred glorious images. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf ? is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to what he has called the "four squareness of the utterance" in ? Beowulf ? and its immense emotional credibility Seamus Heaney gives the great