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...chorus and the people of Thebes know that something’s going on, that something’s not right; but they’re not sure what, exactly,” Heaney says...
...Heaney reveals his reluctance in emphasizing the political aspect of Antigone most clearly in his adjustment of the title to Burial at Thebes. “I wanted to shift the focus to an anthropological, not political, interpretation of the text,” he says...
...more personal level of inspiration, Heaney cites Polish expatriot poet Czeslaw Milosz, who recently passed away at the age of 93. “He had a great political as well as artistic feel,” he says...
Robert Lowell, one of the most prominent poets of the late 20th century, once called Heaney “the greatest Irish poet since Yeats.” Heaney says the visionary author was himself a necessary informant of his writing. “Yeats is like a mountain range, lying on the horizon. He can’t be emulated; you just walk around under the shade,” he says. Yet in his own work, Heaney has helped bring a good deal of illumination to that immense shadow...
...Heaney originally taught for a living. At that point, he thought of his poetry as “more of a pastime” than an actual career...