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This ambivalence haunts District and Circle and is, in my opinion, a strength. As if in defiance of old age, terrorism and abstract spirituality, [Seamus Heaney] asserts the force of heavy, earthy things and, in doing so, visits the subjects and scenes of his earlier poems.
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Down to Earth
In recent years, Seamus Heaney's imagination has taken flight from the soil in poems of the air. Now, writes CLIVE WILMER, he has returned to the original source of his inspiration
Down to earth District and Circle Seamus Heaney Faber & Faber, 96pp, £12.99Seamus Heaney is a poet of the four elements, particularly air and earth. Early in his career it was ...See the full content of this document
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