A little essay by Seamus Heaney in the Guardian on poetry. Entitled “The Pathos of Things” the essay alludes to the hermit poets of Japan such as Basho and to Old Irish hermit poets and describes the attempt of poets ancient and modern to refine a relationship to nature and reality with short verse, whether haiku or Imagism. Originally delivered as the 2000 Lafcadio Hearn lecture.
URL: http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2216007,00.html
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