Richard Ellmann Lectures
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In this lecture, Fintan O'Toole, who is working on the official biography of Seamus Heaney, reflects on the challenges of mapping the relationship between a writer's experiences on the one hand and the transmutations of life into imagery on the other. How can a biography reveal the roots of art in personal and public history without reducing it to the circumstances of its creation? How can it avoid, as Hamlet has it, plucking out the heart of the artistic mystery?
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