Charlie Rose: April 19, 1996

[Sefardisafran]

I am afraid that the words and ideas of the Northern Irish Republic poet are well above and beyond most "casual" readers.

Sefardisafran

[GeorgesBarras]

He's so grounded, just seems like a nice guy.

[jun7per]

This is the last great poet.

[rware3]

His Beowulf rocked my world, I love it from the first word to the last (but especially the first).

Also, Digging is just amazing. I used to recite it to my late grandfather, so it has special significance to me beyond just being one of the greatest poems to read aloud I've ever come across.

[jenniferemmamcm]

Check out the work of Irish poet Patrick Lewis Strachan. He's new on the scene, but there hasn't been a poet of that calibre since William Blake. Strachan's poems, The Imperial Heart, The Partisan & The Testimony of Night are each a poetic masterpiece, three of the finest poems I've ever read. A master poet, up there with Heaney, Yeats, Larkin & Blake...however, you'll need a strong gut to read this man's work: he's not like the others...so, so dark & menacing & angry.

[TheLeventhorpeLegend]

Storm on the Island is part of my coursework.

AMAZING

CC 4 SH

[mheaney]

Seamus Heaney is my distant relative. He lived round the corner from my da in derry

[stacyblue1980]

Love his work. One of my favorite people. ....Heaney that is,.......but Charlie Rose is cool too.

[beachbed]

charlie rose is not cool

[stacyblue1980]

LMAO! Oh you just dont know how much I needed a laugh this morning! ...but C'mon now. Charlie has cool guests and its an intelligent show without being snobby. Ya dig?.....but thank you for the laugh. So bluntly stated.

But dont deny Shamus Heaney...he's DAMN cool.

[Vassman17]

i love this guy

[IbraheemalZawahiri]

Sorry I'm not saying anything about his work, I may not sound too considerate or serious, but I think he looks a little bit Asian. just like J. Lennon, don't you think?

[dylanesque2100]

no i dont think

[IbraheemalZawahiri]

but look at his eyes: they look so Mongolia-like

[violentsilence4u]

well he has zero asia in him..........

[lxrlllxf]

Yeah, I was shocked when I saw his photo. He looks a little bit Mongolian and it is possible that he has that lineage.

[boyleb1]

the tollund man IS the poem of the 20th century. He will only be truly appreciated when he is dead.

[dylanesque2100]

slight exaggeration

[boyleb1]

Well maybe, but I just think it encompasses so much, so subtly. The perennial misunderstandings of humanity, our inability to truly comprehend eternity, our calling to nothingness and the expectation of a response. I was recently at ground zero and this poem just went round and round in my head.

[paddythetinker]

man u talk gibbish just like seamus

[norriaty]

Heaney boppers!

[zombydanger]

Heaney is the best and will be in very long time to come!!!

I love you Seamus. and love who love you too....

[grobbledonk]

Much as I love Leonard Cohen,it simply wouldn't be accurate to say that he, or even Heaney for that matter, has written anything comparable to Geoffrey Hill's The Triumph of Love.

[giggleman]

Huston Smith is a genius.

[RasMfecane]

One of the five best living poets writing in English.

[bobbels101]

Just out of interest, who are the other four for you?

[ftwelve12]

Seamus and Leonard Cohen are easily the best living poets

[CiaranLiam]

Wow, I agree. I saw that comment and I thought maybe I'd left it last time I watched this. But no, just a fellow enlightened fellow.

[lughlamh]

*two" of my favourites too :)

[lughlamh]

Dunno, but they are too of my favourites