I didn't know Heaney had demeaned himself so far as to agree to this
South Bank spectacle. Has he no shame? I'd say this casts grave doubts on
his integrity, and after all I've said to the contrary I shall find it
increasingly difficult to read his work "pure" if he keeps doing this sort
of thing. Which perhaps proves what I was saying.
Or perhaps it's just not possible, and we shouldn't expect it to be, to
filter out all the mass of cultural irrelevance and media nonsense and
arrive at the "actual" poetry.
So Heaney continues to lose some of his best readers, and, probably, his
poetry suffers from it (there used to be something quite "modest" about
his early work, which I don't think is there any more). It's certainly
unfair to Heaney too.
/PR
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