/lit/ - Literature

ITT: We discuss poetry - I'm bored of talking about novels.

I think that Seamus Heaney is the natural successor to Yeats and Behan, but is a better poet than either, AND he doesn't get tanked up all the time and start fights in pubs (as far as I'm aware).

Fuck you, I'm Seanus Heaney and translated Beowulf but don't you dare tell me what to do.

Anyone familiar with Seamus Heaney? I'm writing a paper on Heaney and how his poems present the land or terrain of Ireland as "a kind of character that plays a crucial, shaping role in the country's history." I could use some ideas and opinions to get this thing started.