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Tag Archives: Irish poetry
The Books: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001: ‘Earning a Rhyme,’ by Seamus Heaney
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Seamus Heaney’s Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001. Sometimes when … Continue reading
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Tagged essays, Finders Keepers, Ireland, Irish poetry, poetry, Seamus Heaney
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The Books: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001: ‘Belfast,’ by Seamus Heaney
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Seamus Heaney’s Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001. My father … Continue reading
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Tagged Belfast, essays, Finders Keepers, Ireland, Irish poetry, politics, Seamus Heaney, war
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The Books: The Redress of Poetry; ‘Speranza in Reading: On “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”,’ by Seamus Heaney
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Seamus Heaney’s The Redress of Poetry. “Speranza” was the … Continue reading
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Tagged essays, Ireland, Irish poetry, Oscar Wilde, poetry, Seamus Heaney, The Redress of Poetry
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The Books: The Redress of Poetry; ‘Orpheus in Ireland: On Brian Merriman’s “The Midnight Court”,’ by Seamus Heaney
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Seamus Heaney’s The Redress of Poetry. Brian Merriman lived … Continue reading
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Seamus Heaney: “linguistic resuscitation”
I love this piece on Seamus Heaney by Sven Birkets. Read the whole thing, the ending made me weep on this dark snowy morning. But here is an excerpt. Auden wrote of the moment of Yeats’s death that ‘he became … Continue reading
R.I.P. Seamus Heaney
Jean and I went to visit Siobhan in Ireland. Siobhan was in school, so Jean and I rented a car and drove across the country to Galway, and other Western points. On the way, we pulled off the road to … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was born today in 1865. Yeats is a great poet and all that, but I grew up pretty much “over” him because he was omnipresent in our household. We were made to memorize his epitaph in order … Continue reading
The Books: North, by Seamus Heaney
Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry The next book on my poetry shelf is Seamus Heaney’s 4th volume of poetry, published in 1975 North. In the bog poems, Heaney scrupulously inspects his own poetic art for an aestheticizing of death and murder, … Continue reading
The Books: Wintering Out, by Seamus Heaney
Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry The next book on my poetry shelf is Seamus Heaney’s third volume of poetry, published in 1972 Wintering Out. In Wintering Out he brings politics into his verse directly. Politics had been latent, he claims, before, … Continue reading
The Books: Door Into the Dark, by Seamus Heaney
Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry The next book on my poetry shelf is Seamus Heaney’s second volume of poetry, published in 1969 Door into the Dark: Poems (Faber Paperbacks). Because of Seamus Heaney’s Catholic upbringing in the Protestant north of Ireland, … Continue reading