Author Topic: Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens  (Read 495 times)

Gordon

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Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens
« on: November 30, 2019, 09:23:35 AM »
Tonight, BBC2 at 9.45.

Documentary of his life and work, with readings and family interviews etc - not to be missed!

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Re: Seamus Heaney and the Music of What Happens
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2019, 08:50:17 PM »
(I meant to post this quot on here earlier butmust have been sidetracked on seeing Gordon's Seamus Heaney thread because I put it there! Now removed.)

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure
The bastion of sensation. Do not waver
Into language. Do not waver in it.

Seamus Heaney
True Wit is Nature to Advantage drest,
          What oft was Thought, but ne’er so well Exprest