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Yeats, Not Heaney, for Dark Times

By Robin Bates | Published: December 10, 2020

For social and political barometers, try Heaney for optimism, Yeats for pessimism.

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Hope for a Great Sea-Change

By Robin Bates | Published: November 1, 2020

The Seamus Heaney poem that Biden quotes in a new ad is itself taken from Heaney’s verse translation of Sophocles’s “Philoctetes.” It’s perfect for the current moment.

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