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Tag Archives: Seamus Heaney
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
The Books: Death of a Naturalist, by Seamus Heaney
Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry The next book on my poetry shelf is Seamus Heaney’s first volume of poetry, Death of a Naturalist. Many of the paradoxes of Heaney’s work can be understood only in the context of his historical situation … Continue reading
The Books: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966 – 1998, by Seamus Heaney
Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry The next book on my poetry shelf is Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996, by Seamus Heaney. I had no particular gift for writing what were called “compositions”, and no particular enjoyment of it. But I do … Continue reading
The Books: The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry: Derek Mahon
Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry Next book on the shelf is The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry, edited by Peter Fallon & Derek Mahon. “[Seamus] Heaney is a Wordsworth man and I’m a Coleridge man. I love the poetry, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Derek Mahon, Ireland, Irish poetry, poetry, Seamus Heaney, The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry
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Today in history, February 21, 1907
W.H. Auden was born in York, England. Two pieces of advice for writers from Mr. Auden: To keep his errors down to a minimum, the internal Censor to whom a poet submits his work in progress should be a Censorate. … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Dylan Thomas, George Orwell, Hamlet, Michael Schmidt, poetry, Seamus Heaney, Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, W.H. Auden
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Happy (Belated) Birthday, William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was born yesterday, in 1865. Yeats is a great poet and all that, but I grew up pretty much “over” him because he was kind of omnipresent in our household. We were made to memorize his epitaph … Continue reading
Happy birthday, Seamus Heaney
I went to hear him read at NYU about 10 years ago. We sat in the auditorium at NYU, and the laughter never stopped – it was completely due to his own commentary, his own way. He recited his own … Continue reading
“…You Aren’t So Much Trying To Describe It As Trying To Locate It.”
Wonderful interview of Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll. One of my favorite excerpts from the interview: I had no particular gift for writing what were called “compositions”, and no particular enjoyment of it. But I do remember a moment, early … 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 kind of omnipresent in our household. We were made to memorize his epitaph … Continue reading
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Tagged Camille Paglia, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ireland, Irish poetry, Maud Gonne, Michael Schmidt, poetry, Seamus Heaney, W.B. Yeats
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Writer’s Rooms: Seamus Heaney
The latest in my favorite series at The Guardian – where they give us glimpses of writers’ rooms/studies/workplaces. Today is a good one – Seamus Heaney. I like this one, actually – although it’s a bit too light for my … Continue reading