The book Causley at 70, edited by Harry Chambers, is 119 pp.; b/w photographs. "The Scop," inscribed by Heaney "for Charles Causley," is a translation of ll. 89-98 of Beowulf, presented as a lyric poem. Heaney later revised these lines for their incorporation into "A Skilled Poet" (1999), a poem separately published in advance of integration into his full 1999 Beowulf translation.

The poem begins:

Every day in the hall, the struck harp,
The clear song of a skilled poet! (70)

And ends:

                     And how He quickened life
In every other moving thing as well. (70)

Not mentioned specifically in MO2, but MO2 1987(c) references Heaney's "many other fragmentary translations" in advance of his 1999 full translation.

BAM.