Daniel G. Donoghue is Professor of English at Harvard University. He is the author of "Style in Old English Poetry" (1987) and co-editor, with Seamus Heaney, of "Beowulf: A Verse Translation" (2002). He is also the author of the chapter on Lady Godiva in "Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century" (eds Donald Scragg and Carole Weinberg, 2000).