Seamus Heaney: ten years after his death, the generosity and warmth of his rich poetic voice endures
Seamus Heaney: ten years after his death, the generosity and warmth of his rich poetic voice endures: The English war poet Wilfred Owen once wrote, “Celebrity is the last infirmity I desire.” Killed in France at the age of 25, unpublished and unknown, “celebrity” for Owen was a posthumous phenomenon. By contrast, celebrity status for …