Seamus Heaney, “Chanson d’Aventure” iii
The last lines of “Because I could not stop for Death” stand out, remarkable. How can one be haunted, terrified at any given moment, and still find ...
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from Seamus Heaney’s “The Digging Skeleton”
Drawings touched with an odd beauty As if the illustrator had Responded gravely to the sad Mementoes of anatomy -- - Seamus Heaney, from "The Digging Skeleton" ...
Rooted Cosmopolitanism and the Emergence of the Poet in Seamus Heaney’s North
The link goes to a short conference paper I’ve prepared for ACTC’s 23rd annual conference in Dallas, TX. I will be presenting the paper shortly at a...
Seamus Heaney, “Bone Dreams,” III
III (from “Bone Dreams”) Seamus Heaney In the coffered riches of grammar and declensions I found ban hus, its fire, benches, wattle and rafters, whe...
Michael Cavanagh, “Seamus Heaney Returning”
I’m collecting notes for a longer piece on Seamus Heaney, but I’m unsure where to start. Cavanagh, in this 1998 paper, tracks the theme of return in...