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This weekend Harvard Art Museums will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Fogg beginning with an evening of poetry at Memorial Church featuring Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. The event is free and open to the public. For more information call...
Following an introductory talk by Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, poets Seamus Heaney, John Ashberry and Jorie Graham will read selections from their work. The evening will end with "Come Ye Sons of Art" by Henry Purcell, performed by the University Choir and the Centenary Chamber Orchestra...
...childhood farm--his grounding in the earth--has never left Heaney or his poems: "As a child, they could not keep me from wells/ And old pumps with buckets and windlasses." His recurring metaphor for the act of writing poetry is digging, into the past, into the literal Irish bogs where old friends and enemies lie buried and preserved...
This long, archaeological perspective has drawn some criticism over the years from Catholic partisans in the struggle over Northern Ireland, who felt that Heaney was insufficiently engaged in the tumultuous here and now. His move to Dublin, capital of the Irish Republic, in 1972 also proved controversial. But Heaney has written quite movingly about the carnage wrought by hatred in his native land. In "Casualty," he portrays the death of a Catholic friend who went to a Protestant pub in spite of warnings that a wing of the Irish Republican Army planned to bomb it: "He had gone miles away...
...intensity of Heaney's poetry stems largely from a Roman Catholic temperament that has been baffled by doubt. "My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension," he once told an interviewer. "But then there's the reality: there's no heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised and no personal God." Or, as he writes in one poem, "Just the old truth dawning: there is no next-time-round." Readers of Heaney--or, for that matter, of Dante or of T.S. Eliot--are free to disagree with his beliefs...