We did and we didn’t
Seamus Perry: Are yez civilised?, 6 May 2021
On Seamus Heaney
by R.F. Foster.
Princeton, 228 pp., £14.99, September 2020,978 0 691 17437 2 Show More
by R.F. Foster.
Princeton, 228 pp., £14.99, September 2020,
“... sole business of her visit is to exercise her eerie powers of thought control and inspire a fresh young man to throw himself into the British firing line, an action without the faintest chance of achieving anything other than the terrible beauty of its sacrifice: ‘They that have red cheeks will have pale cheeks for my sake,’ Kathleen intones, ‘and for ... ”