He included six "Sonnets from Hellas" and three "Little Canticles of Asturias" in his collection Electric Light, while the aforementioned "The Harvest Bow" appears in North.
He asserted that "The end of art is peace / Could be the motto of this frail device" in a poem about a "throwaway love-knot of straw". He included six "Sonnets from Hellas" and three "Little Canticles of Asturias" in his collection Electric Light, while the aforementioned "The Harvest Bow" appears in North. In another of his poems, he told of "Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow" after meeting his father crying; that poem ends "A four foot box, a foot for ever year" and tells of the death of his brother Christopher. Another of his poems opens "Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests; snug as a gun" and sees the speaker note "By God, the old man could handle a spade". For 10 points, identify this author whose collection Death of a Naturalist contains his poem "Digging", an Irish poet also known for a celebrated translation of Beowulf.
He asserted that "The end of art is peace / Could be the motto of this frail device" in a poem about a "throwaway love-knot of straw".
Seamus Heaney