Seamus Heaney pays his dues to the poets

Evening Standard - London | April 9, 2001| | Copyright

ELECTRIC LIGHT by Seamus Heaney (Faber, 14. 99/8. 99)

WHAT do poets do when they are so revered that anything they write is canonised automatically, when they can 't move for honours and have been placed virtually beyond criticism?Some become more gnomic, some grandly oracular, others go off at tangents as Ted Hughes did with almost every new book. "Father Seamus " Heaney, , poetry 's ultimate Mr Nice Guy, just carries on producing well-made, unpretentious individual poems.

Electric Light, Heaney 's 11th collection, is much more diffuse than the blindingly vibrant cover might suggest. There ...

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