In one poem, this author observes a "bronze soldier" who "hitches a bronze cape / That crumples stiffly in the imagined wind;" later, he hears the "sure confusing drum" the title figure "followed...to the Balkans." Another poem by this author of "In Memoriam F.E. Ledwidge" opens with its narrator in "the college sick bay" and sees a mother "cough[ing] out angry tearless sighs." That poem ends with the line "A four foot box, a foot for every year," a reference to his brother Christopher's early death. This author of "Mid-Term Break" described a "squat pen" resting "between my finger and my thumb" and declared "By God, 
In one poem, this author observes a "bronze soldier" who "hitches a bronze cape / That crumples stiffly in the imagined wind;" later, he hears the "sure confusing drum" the title figure "followed...to the Balkans." Another poem by this author of "In Memoriam F.E. Ledwidge" opens with its narrator in "the college sick bay" and sees a mother "cough[ing] out angry tearless sighs." That poem ends with the line "A four foot box, a foot for every year," a reference to his brother Christopher's early death. This author of "Mid-Term Break" described a "squat pen" resting "between my finger and my thumb" and declared "By God, the old man could handle a spade" in "Digging." For 10 points, name this author of the collection Death of a Naturalist and recent translator of Beowulf, an Irish poet.
In one poem, this author observes a "bronze soldier" who "hitches a bronze cape / That crumples stiffly in the imagined wind;" later, he hears the "sure confusing drum" the title figure "followed...to the Balkans."
Seamus Heaney