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in this brave new world we look forward to — Poetry is a luxury we must afford
the son of a rickshaw-puller
who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood
Oroonoko’s noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors
Opened Ground : Selected Poems, 1966-1996 Condition:Very Good and home offer encouraging ideasIn "Digging", the first poem in Opened Ground, Heaney likens his pen to both spade and gun. With these metaphors in place, he makes clear his difficult poetic task: to delve into the past, both personal and historic, while remaining ever mindful of the potentially fatal power of language. Born and raised in Northern Ireland, where any hint of Gaelic tradition in one's speech was considered a political act, Heaney is all too aware of the dire