Stephen Burt : Seamus Heaney , who died Friday , wrote poetry , literary essays , translations . ` The Grauballe Man , '' he wrote , `` seems to weep/ the black river of himself '' ... '' His early works were of earth , and of the Troubles ; he found fame writing about divided land . He says later he went south , wrote of civic , family life , dead friends , embraced the numinous . I'm not sure if this is a good thing or bad for him
Stephen Burt : Seamus Heaney , who died Friday , wrote poetry , literary essays , translations . His early works were of earth , and of the Troubles ; he found fame writing about divided land . He says later he went south , wrote of civic , family life , dead friends , embraced the numinous . I'm not sure if this is a good thing or bad for him