How Seamus Heaney Wrote His Way Through a War As his country’s most prominent poet, Heaney struggled to reconcile his vision of poetry with the Troubles tearing the Irish apart. - By Maggie Doherty www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How Seamus Heaney Wrote His Way Through a War

As his country’s most prominent poet, Heaney struggled to reconcile his vision of poetry with the Troubles tearing the Irish apart.