RIP Seamus Heaney

[norrahe]

Another loss to Irish literature

[NickFitz]

Amusing anecdote about him.

[Freaki Li Cuatre]

¿Quien?

[sasguru]

¿Quien?

Ah it's our sophisticated, cosmopolitan, non-provincial friend.

[VectraMan]

I've always felt that I might have grown up liking poetry if it wasn't for the sheer misery of O-level English class, and most notably the hideous poetry of one Seamus Heaney.

I'm not saying I'm pleased that he's dead, and he certainly has enough of a body of work to cause equal misery and destroy any love of poetry for countless thousands of schoolchildren to come, but at least he won't be producing any more of it.

[sasguru]

I've always felt that I might have grown up liking poetry if it wasn't for the sheer misery of O-level English class, and most notably the hideous poetry of one Seamus Heaney.

I'm not saying I'm pleased that he's dead, and he certainly has enough of a body of work to cause equal misery and destroy any love of poetry for countless thousands of schoolchildren to come, but at least he won't be producing any more of it.

I still remember some of T.S. Eliot's poetry that I learned in school.
And I kind of agree, Philip Larkin would be a better choice for kids.

[norrahe]

Still, I'm grateful for his translation of Beowulf.