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Book Ends: from 'A Compendium of Culture'

Harvard, a University, 34, 46
Heaney, Seamus - poet
   - born in Ireland, 17
   - lushness of, 17
   - early radicalism of, 18
   - Eliot, T S, Heaney the new, not, 30
   - Nobel Prize, on holiday in Greece, greatly surprised, 30
   - appears for BBC in self-congratulatory mode
      fearing budget cuts, as cultural icon on the end of a pier, 30
   - boxed sets of poetry books appear at inflated prices, 30
   - long term future, 31
   Poetry:
   - Death of a Naturalist, best Irish poetry since W B Yeats, 18
   - Door into the Dark, confirming reputation
      as one of the best of the younger poets, 18
   - Wintering Out, the intractable themes of
      maturity, old bog bodies, 19
   - North, a myth by which to articulate Ireland, nice cover, 19
   - Fieldwork, Mr Heaney’s work matures, grows rank, 20
   - Station Island, his first collection for five years, 22
   - Haw Lantern, thin book of elegies, nice touches, 23
   - Seeing Things, more of the same, cranking the pump, 24
   - The Spirit Level, post-modern New-Age niche market
      exploited, a poet turns middle-aged, 26
   - (with Ted Hughes) The Rattle Bag, a large book
      with easily bent spine, given away by mail-order book clubs, 27
   Prose:
   - The Government of the Tongue, reprinted
      in time for the Nobel Prize, 30
   - The Redress of Poetry, reprinted
      in time for the Nobel Prize, 30
Helium, a gas, 456

 

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