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Thread #152043   Message #3554359
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
30-Aug-13 - 07:41 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Poet Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
Subject: RE: Obit: Seamus Heaney
So sad. I only knew his poetry after I had to teach it. He was an undoubted genius. Very English in the way Yeats was - a lot of cleverness and cerebration - and complex metaphors. I loved his stuff. He was a truth teller. A teller of complex truths. I am surprised politicians liked him.