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...Connecticut College professor who recently discovered a handwritten William Wordsworth poem in the Houghton Library said Friday that he will not publish the work because of previous knowledge of the existence of the poem among academics...
English Professor Peter J. Seng found the poem in early February while compiling an index of variations in post-1800 English poems. At that time he said he hoped to print the poem in a periodical of Romantic literature...
Seng's decision not to publish the poem follows a letter from a Cornell English professor and editor of a series on Wordsworth "who said he had already handled and was aware of the poem," Seng explained...
...element he describes as "black butter/ Melting and opening underfoot." And in a land that has produced enough rhymers to people County Mayo, his is the voice that resonates loudest past the Irish Sea to Britain, America and beyond. Heaney's reputation seems to increase geometrically with every poem, starting back in 1966 with the appearance of his first true verse, "Digging." It announced, as William Butler Yeats announced in one of his own early works, that a vocation was being sought: "Living roots awaken in my head./ But I've no spade to follow.../ Between my finger...
...lyrical and deranged. His name inescapably recalls T.S. Eliot's Irish vulgarian "Apeneck Sweeney ... among the nightingales." Yet Heaney's man is not a commoner but a king, and he does not merely listen to birds, he becomes one. Sweeney Astray is in fact not an original poem but a brilliant rendition of the 7th century Irish legend Buile Suibne. In it, Mad Sweeney slays an innocent psalmist and is cursed for his great offense by St. Ronan: "It is God's decree/ bare to the world he'll always be." Thereafter, the king loses...