A Big Life
Michael Hofmann: Seamus Heaney, 4 June 2015
New Selected Poems 1988-2013
by Seamus Heaney.
Faber, 222 pp., £18.99, November 2014,978 0 571 32171 1 Show More
by Seamus Heaney.
Faber, 222 pp., £18.99, November 2014,
“... as Wallace Stevens and Rainer Maria Rilke; crediting insufficiently the crystalline inwardness of Emily Dickinson, all those forked lightnings and fissures of association; and missing the visionary strangeness of Eliot. And these more or less costive attitudes were fortified by a refusal to grant the poet any more licence than any other citizen; and they ... ”