Michael mclaverty seamus heaney biography

Seamus heaney famous poems

His short stories, regarded by many as his best work, are lyrical evocations of human emotions and moral choices and their attention to detail of place and mood paint a vivid portrait of the lives and ethical dilemmas of ordinary people. His writing was increasingly influenced by his strong moral sense and his finely drawn characters display the conflicting themes of the human condition, reflecting their uniquely Irish Catholic perspectives, played out often to their logical, and sometimes stark, conclusion.

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Down fields and the authenticity of the speech he heard in all those places - this affords us much pleasure. But realism is finally an unsatisfactory word when it is applied to a body of work as poetic as these stories. Those streets and shores and fields have been weathered in his affections and patient understanding until the contours of each landscape have become a moulded language, a prospect of the mind.

Go your own way. A humble master of two trades Who keeps to his own room, evades The market-place and the headline; Teaching each child to use his eyes, To tell small truths instead of lies In big words that sound fine. He hatches talent with his own; Can breed a tenderness in bone- heads, always helping them to look With love at movement in the street, To celebrate each joy they meet.

Reads every boy like a new book. But the pupils are his masterpiece.