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This author described a "girl's head like an exhumed gourd" in his sonnet "Strange Fruit," which appears a collection whose title poem includes the command to "Keep your eye clear / as the bleb of the icicle." This author of North adapted Sophocles's Antigone and Philoctetes into his plays The Burial at Thebes and The Cure at Troy. In another poem, he describes his younger brother Christopher's (*) coffin as "a four-foot box, a foot for every year," while he noted that "By God, the old man could handle a spade" in another poem. Those poems, "Mid-term Break" and "Digging," are found in his collection Death of a Naturalist. For 10 points, name this Irish poet who, in 1999, released a popular translation of Beowulf.
This author described a "girl's head like an exhumed gourd" in his sonnet "Strange Fruit," which appears a collection whose title poem includes the command to "Keep your eye clear / as the bleb of the icicle.
Seamus {Heaney}