by Seamus Heaney
After a nice tribute to his farming mother and his native countryside, very much in the vein of previous books, Heaney’s poetry takes a sharp turn as he explores the history behind this rural idyll, starting with the uncovering of a Viking ship used for burial, and then dealing in a sequence of poem...
After a nice tribute to his farming mother and his native countryside, very much in the vein of previous books, Heaney’s poetry takes a sharp turn as he explores the history behind this rural idyll, starting with the uncovering of a Viking ship used for burial, and then dealing in a sequence of poem...
I heard Heaney read some of these poems once. They're better aloud. Of course the poems are good on paper, too, but if the book could read aloud it would get 4 or 5 stars.