text: In a poem by this author, the speaker "loved [the] whole manner" of a man "sure-footed but too sly" who was "blown to bits / out drinking in a curfew."
full_question: In a poem by this author, the speaker "loved [the] whole manner" of a man "sure-footed but too sly" who was "blown to bits / out drinking in a curfew." This author of "Casualty" also wrote about creatures "poised like mud grenades, their blunt heads farting," called "great slime kings" who "were gathered there for vengeance." In that work, he recounts filling "jampotfuls of the jellied / Specks to range on window sills at home" and watching "until / The fattening dots burst, into nimble / Swimming tadpoles." In another poem by this man, he remembers seeing his brother "for the first time in six weeks" in a "four foot box, one for every year." For 10 points, name this Irish poet of "Death of a Naturalist" and "Mid-Term Break" who produced a 1999 verse translation of Beowulf.
first_sentence: In a poem by this author, the speaker "loved [the] whole manner" of a man "sure-footed but too sly" who was "blown to bits / out drinking in a curfew."
raw_answer: Seamus Heaney