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Sunday, September 01, 2013

The Nobel Prize for Farrier Poetry: Looking Through Seamus Heaney's "Door into the Dark"



One of the world's greatest poets died on Friday. Ireland's Seamus Heaney was one of those people who bridged the past and the present with verse so deft you were never sure where time fit into the story or if time matters anymore. He grew up in Northern Ireland in the 1940s and went out into the world through his words, winning the Nobel Prize for poetry as he wandered.