Encountering Seamus Heaney.

The author presents insights on Irish poets Seamus Heaney. He notes that Heaney sometimes dramatizes his socioeconomic estrangement from his family and original milieu that his advanced education and rarified occupation had brought about. He also recalls his spring poetry class under Heaney. He mentions Heaney's widely popular fourth book of poetry entitled "North," wherein many of the poems brood upon the bog people of Northern Europe.