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Seamus Heaney

The Essay The Feast of Language
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Poet Thomas Lynch looks to the work of the Irish poet and Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney, whose death at the age of 74, was announced today. Lynch describes how Heaney's writing has nourished him and offers a warm appreciation of Heaney's poetic gifts.

First broadcast in May 2011.

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Fri 30 Aug 2013 22:45
成人快手 Radio 3

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