You’ve listened long enough
Colin Burrow: The Heaneid, 21 April 2016
Aeneid: Book VI
translated by Seamus Heaney.
Faber, 53 pp., £14.99, March 2016,978 0 571 32731 7 Show More
translated by Seamus Heaney.
Faber, 53 pp., £14.99, March 2016,
“... In one of those engagingly innocent-seeming anecdotes Seamus Heaney so skilfully used in both his poems and his prose, he relates (in an essay on Patrick Kavanagh from 1985) that one of his aunts ‘planted a chestnut in a jam jar’ in the year of his birth. In due course the seedling was planted out and grew to a fine height ... ”