As very widely reported, 1995 Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney has passed away.
I can't really add much to the many, many pieces that have appeared in the past day (and I'm afraid none of his works are under review at the complete review), but here a few links to obituaries and tributes:
I can't really add much to the many, many pieces that have appeared in the past day (and I'm afraid none of his works are under review at the complete review), but here a few links to obituaries and tributes:
- Seamus Heaney's death 'leaves breach in language itself' by Charlotte Higgins and Henry McDonald in The Guardian
- Seamus Heaney's human touch by Tom Chivers in The Guardian
- Seamus Heaney's books were events in our lives by Colm Tóibin in The Guardian
- Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet of Soil and Strife, Dies at 74, The New York Times' obituary, by Margalit Fox
- Seamus Heaney, The Telegraph's obituary
- Requiem for Seamus Heaney by Sameer Rahim in The Telegraph