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1 day ago · The following five letters were written by the poet Seamus Heaney, all in the spring of 1995. The Paris Review’s interview with Heaney, referenced in his letter to Henri Cole, is available here; two of his poems appeared in the magazine in 1979. To Ted Hughes March 14, 1995 Dear Ted, Matthew’s letter jolted […]
4 days ago · Seamus Heaney Criticism - Jay Parini. North is a major accomplishment, a book-length sequence of lyrics which exploits the metaphor of possession more fully than any other Irish poet has done. The ...
4 days ago · The lectures Seamus Heaney gave while occupying the Chair of Poetry at Oxford from 1989 to 1994 are magisterial, perhaps even to a fault, since he ranges all the way from Herbert and Marlowe to ...
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4 days ago · Seamus Heaney Criticism - Robert Pinsky. The strengths and limitations of poet-critics, as a class, seem to come from intensity of focus: They need to think about writing, about poetic composition.
3 days ago · District and Circle is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 2006 and won the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize, the most prestigious poetry award in the UK. [ 1][ 2] The collection also won the Irish Times "Poetry Now Award". [ note 1] Reporting on the Eliot Prize, the BBC commented in ...
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3 days ago · In the last stanza of Seamus Heaney’s beautiful poem “Blackberry-Picking”, he writes about recognising a spoiling blackberry in a hoard of plucked berries, and how the cans in which they ...
1 day ago · An episode from 8/1/24: Tonight, I read seven poems from Seamus Heaney’s 1974 collection, North. Few poets from the last century took on the reality of violence in the ancient and modern world the way Heaney does in his poems about Iron Age bog bodies, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and ruminations through mythology and Viking history.
