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Tag Archives: Seamus Heaney
The Books: The Redress of Poetry; ‘Extending the Alphabet: On Christopher Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander”,’ 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. In re-reading this … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Marlowe, England, essays, Ireland, poetry, Seamus Heaney, The Redress of Poetry
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The Books: The Redress of Poetry; ‘The Redress of Poetry,’ 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. The fact of … Continue reading
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Tagged essays, Ireland, poetry, Seamus Heaney, The Redress of Poetry, Wales
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2014 Books Read
2014 was a good reading year. I re-read a lot of favorites, including Rebecca West’s 1200 page Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. There was a fun mix of re-reads and new stuff, of fiction and non-fiction. My year of being … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, Amongst Women, Anjelica Huston, August Strindberg, books read, E.B. White, England, Evelyn Waugh, friends, George Orwell, Henry James, In Cold Blood, Inherent Vice, Ireland, John Cassavetes, John McGahern, Love Streams, Mark Helprin, Mark Twain, Patrick O'Brian, Rebecca West, Roger Angell, Seamus Heaney, Sweden, Truman Capote, Wales, war
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Snapshots
– I miss Memphis. I want to go back. And I also want to go to Shreveport, and Biloxi. It’s been a while since I’ve taken a road trip. I’m getting restless. – Been reading Seamus Heaney poetry in the … Continue reading
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Tagged family, friends, Memphis, Patrick O'Brian, poetry, Seamus Heaney, snapshots, X-Files
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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
“Well, that’s true, Brian. But he did say ALMOST.”
Brian Phillips describes (in a series of Tweets, so you have to scroll down and then read back up) his experience of having Seamus Heaney as a teacher.
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
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