{"id":73855,"date":"2013-12-09T07:36:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T12:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=73855"},"modified":"2020-11-16T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T14:18:00","slug":"seamus-heaney-linguistic-resuscitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=73855","title":{"rendered":"Seamus Heaney: &#8220;linguistic resuscitation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/magazine\/altered-states\/mourning-seamus-heaney-and-his-way-of-being-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I love this piece on Seamus Heaney<\/a> by Sven Birkets. Read the whole thing, the ending made me weep on this dark snowy morning.  But here is an excerpt. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Auden wrote of the moment of Yeats\u2019s death that \u2018he became his admirers\u2019, and I had the strongest feeling just then of what he meant. I conjured all at once, if this is possible, the idea, the emotional image, of all of those who knew and loved Seamus, or knew and loved his work \u2014 or both \u2014 and I felt inside the ghostly trace of a circuitry. That in this one moment all over the world, and of course most densely in Ireland, in Dublin, and most overwhelmingly on his own home ground in Sandymount, this same shock of incomprehension \u2014 not yet bereavement \u2014 was being registered. I pictured one person after another, dozens perhaps, and these were only the people who I knew who had a connection. Of course there were hundreds, many hundreds more.<\/p>\n<p>When I drove down to the general store the next morning to get The New York Times and The Boston Globe, that sense was confirmed. There was massive front-page coverage everywhere \u2014 the biggest I\u2019d ever seen for the death of a writer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s death that \u2018he became &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=73855\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[35,2629,160,237],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163280,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73855\/revisions\/163280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}