Seamus Heaney - Desert Island Discs - Sun 19 Nov 1989
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- This week's Desert Island Discs castaway is Seamus Heaney, a Catholic Ulsterman who has been acclaimed by many as the best Irish poet since Yeats. He was recently elected Oxford Professor of Poetry, and he'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his idyllic rural childhood as the eldest of nine children, his transition to university life and the sources of his poetic inspiration.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
So well spoken. Effortlessly erudite. Nothing to prove. Thoroughly enjoyed getting to know him a bit through this. Thanks for posting!
What a wonderful man, apart from his genius he was full of humanity
Met and had many happy encounters with this amazing fellow Bellaghy man. A human being first, an intellectual second and an Ulsterman third. Plummy british Sue Lawley sounds secondary to this genius of the English language. Missed every day for his candour and intellect and his humility.
Magnificent portrait of Seamus....
Lovely man⭐ you can hear the kindness⭐ in his every word ⭐
😍 Could listen all day.
Oh Seamus..how precious to have a window to your heart..
Thank you thank you..I know your no longer with us there was never enough time..come back to us when you .....
If I was to choose one book, I think I would include 'Exploring The Earth and Moon' by Patrick Moore ( 1923 - 2012 ).
Although it is written for a juvenile audience, I think it expresses with clarity and precision our home planet and nearest neighbour world in space, and encourages the mind to wonder at what we are so familiar with, the Earth and moon, with joy and imagination, and compels us to see delight and wonder in what we see around us.
Nice to hear the name of Gerard Manley Hopkins mentioned.
Great met him once Lovely cosy man. Love his poetry,,
how lucky you were!
My dad was slightly older than him, grew up in the same town of Castledawson. Would have been a nightmare for them both growing up there.
wish i could meet a man like this one
Emerson wrote: The best way to plan a man is think him so. Thanks for your remark.
'to help in human and sacred learning'
Michael Gildea. The generosity of spirit of he describes was hugely evident in the years I lived in the Ballinvard , Rossmore. What a pleasure that time was.
The man whose pages thank the trees for their paper. 'Humanity' is the word @lindsay berry. Heany was a literary gymnast! Not to mention the shamanic depth of the his work. His words both sparkle and jarr in all of the right places.
Aren’t all pages indebted to trees?
That voice though
What do you mean?
fabulous.
kiitos
Rath Dé ort a Sheamus.
A truly great poet who kept his natural humility - greater than Yeats.
Seamus Heaney - Digging - Centre Culturel Irlandais June 13 2013 ua-cam.com/video/wDAChlcYRqg/v-deo.html
A greater poet than Yeats.
Greater than Yeates, more solid, less ephemeral.
Why do we need to order them in a hierarchy?
@@JohnHillEU Why wld. you not order anything in a qualitative hierarchy of good better best?
@@dhss333 only in an extreme lefty "there are to be no winners"
@@dhss333 because it is impossible to measure poetry qualitatively
And to think the shallowness that is Lauren ‘intimate gig’ Laverne is now doing Desert Islands Discs... awful
and the shallowness of the language and the concepts discussed!
Oh come on, you don’t want to listen to a tv actor talking about how shewaddywaddy moves them?