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Nov. 22nd, 2004 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotherusedpageI met Seamus Heaney today.
At the drinks event after Christopher Ricks' inaugral lecture as professor of poetry.
He was very Irish, and cheeful, and faintly drunk. He actually chatted with... well, with everyone, but specifically with the undergrads that were around. He made jokes. He was going to dinner with Tom Stoppard and Richard Attenburough when he'd finished at the drinks event, to pick up some honarary award or another, about which he was very non-plussed and making jokes. And he remembered the guy in charge of Magdalen poetry soc from the only other time they'd met, which I thought was very sweet of him.
Christopher Ricks is a great public speaker, although he was talking about translating poetry, and the poetry was largely in French, and he didn't provide translations, so I lost him quite quickly. Still, he's witty and interesting, specially when he was talking about the value of all kinds of different writing.
It was one of those moments that made me glad to be in Oxford.
At the drinks event after Christopher Ricks' inaugral lecture as professor of poetry.
He was very Irish, and cheeful, and faintly drunk. He actually chatted with... well, with everyone, but specifically with the undergrads that were around. He made jokes. He was going to dinner with Tom Stoppard and Richard Attenburough when he'd finished at the drinks event, to pick up some honarary award or another, about which he was very non-plussed and making jokes. And he remembered the guy in charge of Magdalen poetry soc from the only other time they'd met, which I thought was very sweet of him.
Christopher Ricks is a great public speaker, although he was talking about translating poetry, and the poetry was largely in French, and he didn't provide translations, so I lost him quite quickly. Still, he's witty and interesting, specially when he was talking about the value of all kinds of different writing.
It was one of those moments that made me glad to be in Oxford.
