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Heaney Agonistes

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J.P. Craig

On Seamus Heaney

Letter to the Editor: 2009-03-27



I think it's the Irish mystique that made Heaney popular in the U.S. MFA programs. When I was in an MFA program and Heaney visited, there was a definite: “Let’s-meet-the-authentic-Irishman” feeling in the air. The same was true with Eavan Boland, except it was “the Irishwoman”. After the absolutely-packed reading — packed with the general reading public and the usual poetry-loving suspects — people were abuzz about his Irish accent.

J.P. Craig

 
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