Seamus Heaney's "A Basket of Chestnuts"

04/12/24 • 12 min

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Today’s poem is an ekphrasis on a portrait of the poet himself–all that the portrait does and doesn’t capture or convey.

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Today’s poem is an ekphrasis on a portrait of the poet himself–all that the portrait does and doesn’t capture or convey.

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