For 10 points, name this translator, who also wrote the collection The Death of a Naturalist.
This author described a certain type of work in Stepping Stones as giving "the high of finishing something you don't have to start." In one translation by this author the speaker sees "two soldered in a frozen hole / On top of other, one's skull capping the other's" and is meant to parallel events of Gerry Adams' life. This poet's collections include the punningly titled book The Midnight Verdict, which translates poems by Merriman. One translation by this poet emphasizes the "four-squareness of the utterance" of its title character. That translation by this poet employed a style called (*) "Scullionspeak," and opens with "So" in place of "HWÃ†T", before describing "The Spear-Danes in days gone by". The most famous of translation by this man is his Beowulf. For 10 points, name this translator, who also wrote the collection The Death of a Naturalist.
This author described a certain type of work in Stepping Stones as giving "the high of finishing something you don't have to start."
Seamus Heaney