The Pen and the Spade: The Poems of Seamus Heaney(literaryreview.co.uk) |
The Pen and the Spade: The Poems of Seamus Heaney(literaryreview.co.uk) |
Yes! I actually studied Yeats as my Leaving Cert History Special Topic and had a gra for him for many years. But as I get older and see him more in historical context his success does seem to be partially a political artefact and his involvement in the founding of the Irish state bestowed upon him a beatificence that perhaps outshone even his brilliance and made him seem more timeless than perhaps he was. But then again, 1913, Byzantium, No Second Troy … it’s hard to find more strident and articulate polemicals
With O’Leary in the grave