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Heaney Agonistes
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Jeffrey Side: The Dissembling Poet: Seamus Heaney and the Avant-garde
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Rob Stanton: ‘A shy soul fretting and all that
’: Heaney, Prynne and Brands of Uncertainty
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The Group in Belfast, 1960s
(Seamus Heaney: The Early Years)
Letters to the Editor from:
[»»] Ira Lightman;
[»»] John Muckle;
[»»] J.P. Craig;
[»»] Jamie McKendrick;
[»»] David Latané;
[»»] Aidan Semmens;
[»»] Ira Lightman (2);
[»»] Jamie McKendrick (2);
[»»] Ira Lightman (3);
[»»] Desmond Swords;
[»»] Todd Swift and Jeffrey Side;
[»»] Jeffrey Side, reply to Desmond Swords;
[»»] Jamie McKendrick (3);
[»»] Ira Lightman (4);
[»»] Jeffrey Side responds to Ira Lightman;
[»»] Jeffrey Side responds to Jamie McKendrick;
[»»] From Desmond Swords, 2009-04-07;
[»»] From Jamie McKendrick, 2009-04-09;
[»»] Jeffrey Side responds to Jamie McKendrick;
[»»] Andrew Boobier
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I think it's the Irish mystique that made Heaney popular in the U.S. MFA programs. When I was in an MFA program and Heaney visited, there was a definite: “Let’s-meet-the-authentic-Irishman” feeling in the air. The same was true with Eavan Boland, except it was “the Irishwoman”. After the absolutely-packed reading — packed with the general reading public and the usual poetry-loving suspects — people were abuzz about his Irish accent.
J.P. Craig