Seamus Heaney
In his letters, Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s tone, and the expanse of his openness, varies according to the addressee — but his approach to all is inevitably marked by seriousness and elegance.
“Mostly I want people to enjoy a feast of language, imagery, story, and the power of the actor to incite the imagination.”
Throughout his writing, poet Seamus Heaney’s penetrating imagination is one that strives for accuracy.
Must age diminish a great poet’s strengths? If I grant that age has such power, I’m left to ponder the truly strange fact that death does not.
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