In one poem this author asserts "Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall / Confident that we have built our wall." Another poem by him describes finding frogs' eggs that "sa
In one poem this author asserts "Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall / Confident that we have built our wall." Another poem by him describes finding frogs' eggs that "sat / Poised like mud grenades." This poet reminisced about "hands peppered / With thorn pricks" and "palms sticky as Bluebeard's" and, in another poem, mentions his brother's burial in "a four-foot box, a foot for every year." This author of "Blackberry-Picking" and "Mid-Term Break" won a Whitbread Prize for his translation of a work partially set in King Hrothgar's Hall Herot. For 10 points, identify this Irish author of the collection Death of a Naturalist and a famed 1999 translation of Beowulf.
In one poem this author asserts "Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall /
Seamus Justin Heaney