Victoria's secret.(Verse chronicle)(Seamus Heaney's poetry)

New Criterion | June 1, 2006| | Copyright

Last year a Dublin literary magazine sponsored an open competition for the best Seamus Heaney imitation. The winning poem began, 

 
   Niall Fitzduff brought a jar 
   of crab apple jelly 
   made from crabs off the tree 
   that grew at Duff's Corner-- 
   still grows at Duff's Corner-- 
   a tree I never once saw 
   with crab apples on it.

This would be hilarious, if Heaney hadn't written it himself (I was kidding about the competition, though surely he would win). At sixty-seven, his Nobel dusty on the shelf, Heaney is old enough and honored enough not to ...

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