For ten points, identify this poet who wrote about his four-year-old brother's death while he was at school in "Mid-Term Break" and promises that he will follow his father and grandfather by "Digging" the earth with his "squat pen," best known for his recent translation of Beowulf.
He closes his poem "From the Frontier of Writing" by leaving "posted soldiers flowing and receding like tree shadows into the polished windscreen" and finds the title berry to "take the roaming shape of Diogenes" in his collection The Haw Lantern, while he wrote about his father aging, contrasted with his earlier abilities with a horse-plough in "Follower." For ten points, identify this poet who wrote about his four-year-old brother's death while he was at school in "Mid-Term Break" and promises that he will follow his father and grandfather by "Digging" the earth with his "squat pen," best known for his recent translation of Beowulf.
He closes his poem "From the Frontier of Writing" by leaving "posted soldiers flowing and receding like tree shadows into the polished windscreen" and finds the title berry to "take the roaming shape of Diogenes" in his collection The Haw Lantern, while he wrote about his father aging, contrasted with his earlier abilities with a horse-plough in "Follower."
Seamus {Heaney}