Dear Andrew,
Thanks for your response.
Regarding the one Kinsella paragraph from your e-mail which I return
below, I couldn't agree more with you if I had written your statement
myself !!
Best regards,
Séamas
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Andrew Browne <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Seamus,
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> I completely agree with you that Kinsella is the greatest Irish poet of
> his generation. Heaney is OK but Kinsella is a consumate poet who is not
> afraid to follow his muse wherever it leads him. His poetry shows levels
> of experimentation and depth of thematic that Heaney's work doesn't. Fifty
> years from now we may see Kinsella as the Yeats of his generation while
> Heaney is but a pale Gogarty in comparison.
>
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