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Joe Biden's Theater Moment: Quoting Sophocles/Seamus Heaney in His 2020 Democratic Convention Speech by Jonathan Mandell

Near the end of Joe Biden's acceptance speech on the final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention (transcript below), he quoted from a poem by Seamus Heaney, the great Irish writer and translator, a Nobel Laureate. The full verse: "History says, Don't hope on this side of the grave, But then, once in a...

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:09AM on August 21, 2020

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