Tag: death
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Seamus Heaney
Learning, today, of the death of Seamus Heaney, I first thought of his magnificent essay contrasting two views of dying, “Joy or Night: Last Things in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Philip Larkin,” in his 1995 volume The Redress of Poetry. Heaney speaks of Larkin’s stark poem “Aubade” as “treating as mystification any…
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Learning from Our Elders
A recent phone call led me to reflect on how over 65ers can help younger folks learn about aging. Three months ago I received a call from Langley Danowitz, daughter of Emily Lublin, a long time patient of mine, who had died in 2000 at age 84. (Langley had seen me quoted in a New York…