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Unread 05-15-2021, 05:24 AM
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I found this in an article by Seamus Perry in the London Review of Books about a new book (by R. F. Foster) on Heaney ...

"In 1982 Heaney contributed a superb essay to Philip Larkin's sixtieth birthday celebrations about the way light floods into Larkin's poetry with a feeling of immense if inexplicable redemptiveness ..."

I think that sounds about right.

But I also loved this aside, about James Joyce and English ...

"Joyce wasn't remotely troubled, as Corkery was, by the thought that writing in the coloniser's language was a problem; on the contrary, he usually gives the impression that English had been twiddling its thumbs waiting for him to come along and make something of it."
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Unread 05-15-2021, 03:11 PM
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Roy Foster's book On Seamus Heaney (Princeton, 2020) is a first-rate account of his life and his writing.

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I have read, and enjoyed, his two volume biography of Yeats. And his history of Ireland. Not the Heaney yet.
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Yes, I have read these excellent books, too. (What a strange fellow Yeats was...)

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