He clarifies the distinction between "technique and craft" during his discussion of "The Diviner" in the critical essay "Feeling Into Words."
He clarifies the distinction between "technique and craft" during his discussion of "The Diviner" in the critical essay "Feeling Into Words." He describes a conversation as a "loose single gown" in "A Dream of Jealousy" and he ruminates on a critter "snuffing the boards five feet beyond me" in "The Skunk." His other poems include "Chasing and Gathering" dedicated to Ted Hughes and a retelling of Philoctetes in The Cure at Troy [*] The essay collection The Government of the Tongue discusses the politics of English in his homeland. More representative works include the archeological "Tollund's Man," a piece on a body discovered in a peat bog, "Punishment," and sequence of dream encounters set on St. Patrick's Purgatory. Recently he has done a new translation of Beowulf. FTP, identify the author of volumes of verse like Station Island, Field Work, and The Death of the a Naturalist.
He clarifies the distinction between "technique and craft" during his discussion of "The Diviner" in the critical essay "Feeling Into Words."
Seamus {Heaney}