Heaney

Jeffrey Side:

Jacket Magazine is looking for responses to an article I've written on Seamus Heaney, and which touches on his association with The Group, Hobsbaum, early career etc., which can be found here. Jacket especially needs articles, or shorter pieces, giving information or insights that might answer the question: "How did Heaney accomplish in so relatively short a period the almost universal admiration he now enjoys given his fairly modest talent? (The phrasing is mine, not Jacket's) Jacket simply wants informative articles on Heaney's career in poetry, which may shed light on the mechanisms of his ascendency. Send anything you may have here.