Anglo-Irish Occasions
Seamus Heaney
When the prospect of this evening’s honours was first mooted I was aware that T.S. Eliot had praised W.B. Yeats for not allowing himself to become a mere coathanger upon which the world draped its honours, but could assuage myself by thinking that Eliot had never witnessed the Merton Professor of English perform his capework as resourcefully and generously as he has just done.
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Vol. 10 No. 9 · 5 May 1988 » Seamus Heaney » Anglo-Irish Occasions
page 9 | 1605 words