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1:05, Blue Jays at Tigers: All of a sudden the Tigers are dead in the Wild Card race but the Blue Jays are alive. Wait, what? That's what three straight wins will do for our friends from Canada. Jesse Litsch will go for the four-game sweep while Armando Galarraga, the best pitcher in Detroit, will try to use his Galarraga Power to stop it all.

Can you believe this: both poets on the same bill, in the same place only 45 min from my front door. Last night I went to see them; one a former US Poet Laureate, the other a Nobel Literature Prize winner, and both at the Marketplace Theatre in Armagh city.

"We met an old man almost double. He had on a coat thrown over his shoulders. . . . Under this he carried a bundle and had an apron on and a night cap. His face was interesting. He had dark eyes and a long nose . . . He was of Scotch parents but had been born in the army.

Critical Analysis of The Forge by Seamus Heaney ‘The Forge’ is a sonnet with a clear division into an octave (the first eight lines) and a sestet (the final six lines). While the octave, apart from its initial reference to the narrator, focuses solely on the inanimate objects and occurrences inside and outside the forge, the sestet describes the blacksmith himself, and what he does.

Critical Analysis of ‘The Forge’ by Seamus Heaney ‘The Forge’ is a sonnet with a clear division into an octave (the first eight lines) and a sestet (the final six lines). While the octave, apart from its initial reference to the narrator, focuses solely on the inanimate objects and occurrences inside and outside the forge, the sestet describes the blacksmith himself, and what he does.

Jesse Stuart, the Appalachian Hugh MacDiarmid? It struck me that the following passage, from Seamus Heaney’s essay “A Torchlight Procession of One” on the Scottish nationalist poet Hugh MacDiarmid, could also describe the man who might be called an Appalachian nationalist poet, Jesse Stuart.

On the political nature of redress A passage from Seamus Heaney’s The Redress of Poetry (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1995) that seems to me somewhat relevant to my post earlier to day about Woodrow Wilson’s CPI: [Political activists] will always want the redress of poetry to be an exercise in

alright, before i get into the post, i would be remiss if i didn’t mention last night’s celtics -v- lakers game. best comeback in finals history by boston! it was an amazing game. paul pierce is the TRUTH and the green will be hoisting banner #17 within the week! i might pee. for more, i direct you to shane.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol Oscar Wilde “idolized” his mother, Jane, Lady Wilde. So says Isobel Murray in the introduction to the Complete Poetry (Oxford University Press, 1997). And yet, he wrote that “the two great turning-points in my life were when my father sent me to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison” [Murray p.

A recent rather thrilling experience caused me to reflect upon the notion of celebrity. A couple of weeks ago, Notre Dame celebrated the 10 year anniversary of her Dublin Programme, the programme I have been blessed to be a student in all year.