Creator
P. V. Glob
Title
Mosefolket [The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved]
Coverage
Frogmore
Publisher
Palladin
Date
1975
Description
In 1969 Seamus Heaney purchased a copy of this book on ancient bodies being exhumed from the Jutland bogs, inspiring his best collections: North and Bog Poems. This copy was inscribed for a friend in 1976, “bog-eyed Narcissus”. The words “big-eyed Narcissus” had appeared in an early poem (“Personal Helicon”), but he clearly identified with the bog people. Heaney later presented Death of a Naturalist (1966) to Elizabeth Bishop: “first gurgles from the bog-eyed Narcissus”.
Source
From the collection of Sammy Jay
Contributor
Translated from the Danish by Rupert Bruce-Mitford.