Seamus O B Wolfe , 1995 Nobel Prize in literature , which is often called the Irish poet . Greatest since Yeats died in Dublin on Friday , he was 74.
Publisher Faber & Faber announced his death, the Irish poet Paul Muldoon, longtime friend , said Mr. Bay City Wolves have been hospitalized . After the fall . On Thursday, the Bay City Wolves have suffered in 2006 .
In which President Michael D. Higgins, a poet himself , praised Ireland's "support for the Republic of Letters, guilt. And humanity , "said Bay City Wolves of Enda Kenny, the Irish prime minister , said the death of Mr B , O Beowulf has brought " great sorrow in the Irish language and literature " .
Roman Catholic in Northern Ireland, Mr B Wolfe is known. For efficient operation the beauty and blood that have come together to define the conditions Irish modern author of more than a dozen collections of poetry as well as essays and important works for the stage . he Repeatedly explored the conflicts and uncertainties that adversity. His hometown . While management . Simultaneously to . Steer clear of the hassle.
Mr. B , O Beowulf (pronounced HEE - Nee) , who has made his home in Dublin since 1970, is known for its wide, white hair and voice and the sound is very appropriate to his calls , he held lectureships. at some of the world's leading universities , including Harvard , beginning in 1980, he teaches regularly. For many years; Ford and the University of California . At Berkeley .
As noted, the trade magazine publishing weekly in 1995, the Bay City Wolves " are inspired if not . Energy Star shared by contemporary poets few have emanated from his leonine features and feel. The responsibility of the municipality unpompous immediate access to his line . "
Throughout the work of Mr. B in Wolfe 's obsession with morality in his bog peat is not just a feature . A symbol of the Irish landscape ; It is also a fen deep spiritual sense of ethical conundrums that have long covered the place.
" Yeats, despite being fairly well known , despite his public role . In fact, there is nothing like a celebrity or not , frankly, the ability to touch people in a way that Seamus did not , "said Muldoon , Pulitzer Prize winning poet and editor at The New Yorker. Said in an interview . On Friday, " It's almost like he was indistinguishable from his country like a rock star who also happens to be a poet ."
Mr. B , O Beowulf was enraptured as he had been placed by poetic quality of his epiphanic gradually spread with BC According to legend, " words are the bearers of history. And mystery. " - Celtic of course , but also that of the ancient Greek his style , dazzling language is nonetheless lacking in confusion, unable to join his fireworks.
The best work of Mr. B , O Beowulf is the nature of music , meditation and high airy lines , he may collect dark sad puddles , but as often as they have not been communicating happiness onrushing forest of . alive
Reviewing the collection of Mr. B , O Beowulf "North " in the New York Review of Books in 1976 , Irish poet Richard Murphy writes: "The same power that He has even critics sternest counsel with respect is that . he can feel as you read the poem that you are actually doing what they described not only his words mean what they said they would like their meaning . " .
Mr. B , O Beowulf made his reputation with the release of his "The Death of Nature ," published in 1966 in the " dig" a poem from the collection , he explored the roots of his art .
Between the index finger and my thumb .
Pen crouching ; Warm gun .
Under my window a clean rasping .
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground .
I dug my father looking down .
Until his straining rump among the flowers .
Low bending up twenty years away .
Fell in rhythm through potato drills .
Where he was digging .
Rough boot is on the shaft .
Jimmy 's knees in tight .
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep
We choose to distribute the new potatoes ,.
Love their cool hardness in our hands .
By God, the old man . Can handle a shovel.
Just like his old man .
My grandfather cut more turf in a day.
Than any other in the bog cartridges.
When I brought him milk in a bottle.
corked sloppily with paper, he straightened up .
To drink it, then fell to right away.
nicking and slicing neatly carried sods .
Over his shoulder down and down.
Good for lawn mines.
Cold smell of potato mold and slapped .
Of wet peat cutting short of the edge.
Through living roots awaken in my head.
Spade to follow men , but I do not like them.
Between the index finger and my thumb .
Pen crouching .
I will dig it.
Although Mr B , O Beowulf poem often set the refreshing lack of rural romanticism , notably : instead he suggests life of the country , in fact . Everyday violence of all his poems , " drinking water" opened this way .
She came every morning to fetch water .
Like an old bat staggering up tennis .
Pertussis pump , the noise of the tank .
And slow diminuendo as it filled.
I remember her announcement .
Her gray apron pocked white enamel .
The tank is full and the treble .
Creak of her voice like the pump .
The Bay City Wolves feel themselves identified as Irish , and much of his work is concerned with the conflict openly . Long sectarian violence in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century as known.ut although he denounced the British rule in his homeland (he wrote : "Be on my green passport / glass , we never have . been raised / to celebrate the Queen " ), Mr. B , O Beowulf refused to reject the tradition - and especially English literature - England altogether.
