An autobiographical poem by this man begins "As a child, they could not keep me from wells" and concludes with the poetic rationale "I rhyme to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
An autobiographical poem by this man begins "As a child, they could not keep me from wells" and concludes with the poetic rationale "I rhyme to see myself, to set the darkness echoing." This author of "Personal Helicon" described a biology lesson from Miss Walls about "great slime kings" who were "poised like mud grenades" on a flax-dam in a poem about his love for "the warm thick slobber of (*) frogspawn." The subject of a poem by this man "could handle a spade. Just like his old man", and that figure inspires this poet's declaration, "Between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests. I'll dig with it." For 10 points, name this Irish Nobel laureate, the author of the collection Death of a Naturalist and a translation of Beowulf.
An autobiographical poem by this man begins "As a child, they could not keep me from wells" and concludes with the poetic rationale "I rhyme to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
Seamus Justin Heaney