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Harrison, Tony, , ,  ‘An Advancement of Learning’, , , Hart, Henry, Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary  Progressions,  ‘Barn, The’,  Harvard University, –,  ‘Blackberry-Picking’, –,  Explore Harvard: The Yard and Beyond,  ‘Churning Day’,  Heaney archive, ,  ‘’, , ,  Harvard, John,  ‘Digging’, , , –, , –, , Haughton, Hugh,  , , , , , , , Havel, Václav, , ,  , –, – Heaney, Catherine Ann (daughter of SH),  ‘Diviner, The’,  Heaney, Christopher (brother of SH), , ‘Docker’,  – ‘Follower’, , ,  Heaney, Christopher (son of SH), ,  ‘For the Commander of the “Eliza”’, , Heaney, Grace (aunt of SH),  ,  Heaney, Hugh (brother of SH),  ‘Mid-Term Break’, , ,  Heaney, Margaret (mother of SH), ,  ‘Personal Helicon’, , , , , , Heaney, Marie (née Devlin, wife of SH), –, , , , – , ,  ‘Play Way, The’,  Heaney, Mary (aunt of SH),  ‘Poem (for Marie)’,  Heaney, Michael (son of SH),  ‘Storm on the Island’,  Heaney, Patrick (father of SH),  ‘Trout’,  Heaney, Sarah (Sally, aunt of SH), , –,  Diary of One Who Vanished, ,  Heaney, Seamus , , –, , –, , ‘A Soul on the Washing Line: An Interview’ –,  (Economist), ,  ‘Aerodrome, The’, , – Advancements of Learning (manuscript),  ‘Anahorish ’,  Aeneid Book VI, , , –, , , ‘Anything Can Happen’, , –, , , ,  ,  After Summer,  ‘Blackbird of Glanmore, The’, , , ‘Among Schoolchildren’, , , ,  ,  ‘Amputation’,  ‘Brancardier’,  ‘Bags of Enlightenment’, – ‘Clip, A’,  ‘Beacons at Bealtaine’,  ‘District and Circle’, , , – ‘Belfast’, , , ,  ‘Harrow-Pin, The’, ,  Beowulf, , –, –, , –, ‘Helmet’,  –, ,  ‘Home Fires’,  ‘Birthplace, The’,  ‘Midnight Anvil’, ,  ‘Bogland’ (essay),  ‘Nod, The’, ,  Bog Poems,  ‘Nonce Words’,  ‘Tête Coupée’,  ‘Poet to Blacksmith’,  Burial at Thebes, The, , , , –, ‘Polish Sleepers’,  – ‘Súgán’,  ‘Chaplet, A: For My Mother’,  ‘To George Seferis in the Underworld’,  ‘Christmas, ’,  ‘Tollund Man in Springtime, The’, , ‘Craig’s Dragoons’,   ‘Crediting Poetry’, , , , , , , ‘Turnip-Snedder, The’, , ,  – ‘Wordsworth’s Skates’,  Cure at Troy, The, , , , , –, Door into the Dark, , , , , –, , –, , , , ,  , , ,  ‘Current Unstated Assumptions about Poetry’, ‘At Ardboe Point’,   ‘Bann Clay’,  ‘Dear Mam and Aunt Mary’,  ‘Bogland’, –, , , ,  Death of a Naturalist, , –, , , , ‘Forge, The’, , –, ,  , , , , , , ‘Given Note, The’, , ,  –, , ,  ‘In Gallarus Oratory’, 

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‘Lough Neagh Sequence’,  ‘On Poetry and Professing’,  ‘Peninsula, The’,  ‘Something to Write Home About’, ,  ‘Requiem for the Croppies’, ,  ‘Through-Other Places, Through-Other ‘Early Purges, The’,  Times: The Irish Poet in Britain’,  ‘Earth House, The’,  ‘Five Derry Glosses’,  ‘Eclogues in Extremis’,  Government of the Tongue, The, , , –, Electric Light, , , , , –,  , , , – ‘At Toomebridge’,  Haw Lantern, The, , , , , , ‘Audenesque’,  , ,  ‘Ballynahinch Lake’,  ‘Alphabets’, , , , , , , ‘Bann Valley Eclogue’,  ,  ‘Bookcase, The’, , , – ‘Clearances’, , , ,  ‘Clothes Shrine, The’,  ‘Clearances ’ (‘When all the others were ‘Electric Light’, – away at Mass’), , – ‘Fragment, The’,  ‘Clearances ’,  ‘Glanmore Eclogue’,  ‘From the Canton of Expectation’,  ‘Known World’, , , –,  ‘From the Frontier of Writing’, , , ‘Late in the Day’,   ‘Loose Box, The’, , , – ‘From the Republic of Conscience’, , ‘On His Work in the English Tongue’,  , ,  ‘Real Names, The’, ,  ‘Further Language’ (essay), ,  ‘Virgil: Eclogue IX’,  ‘Mud Vision, The’, –, , , Eleven Poems,  – ‘Englands of the Mind’, , –, ,  ‘Parable Island’, ,  ‘Errata for BK’, , , – ‘Postcard from Iceland, A’,  ‘Feeling into Words’, , , , , , , ‘Terminus’, , ,  ,  Human Chain, , , , , , , –, Field Work, , , , , , –, , , , – , ,  ‘Had I not been awake’,  ‘Casualty’, , , , , , – ‘door was open and the house was dark, ‘Drink of Water, A’, ,  The’, ,  ‘Elegy’, –, ,  ‘Canopy’,  ‘Glanmore Sonnets’, ,  ‘Derry Derry Down’, – ‘Harvest Bow, The’, , , –, , ‘Eelworks’, –,  , ,  ‘Herbal, A’, ,  ‘In Memoriam Sean O’Riada’,  ‘Hermit Songs’,  ‘Leavings’,  ‘Human Chain’,  ‘Oysters’,  ‘In the Attic’,  ‘Singer’s House, The’, – ‘Kite for Aibhín, A’, , ,  ‘Song’,  ‘Miracle’,  ‘Strand at Lough Beg, The’, ,  ‘Old Refrain, The’, – ‘Toome Road, The’, , , – ‘Riverbank Field, The’,  Finders Keepers, , –, , , – ‘Route ’, –, , , ,  ‘Belfast’, ,  ‘Slack’,  ‘Cessation ’, , ,  ‘Impact of Translation, The’,  ‘Earning a Rhyme’,  Interview with Monie Begley (Rambles in ‘Envies and Identifications: Dante and the Ireland), ,  Modern Poet’,  Interview with Rand Brandes (Salmagundi, ‘Extending the Alphabet’,  ), , ,  ‘Indefatigable Hoof-Taps, The’,  Interview with Henri Cole, (Paris Review, ‘John Clare’s Prog’,  ), , , ,  ‘Joy or Night: Last Things in the Poetry of Interview with Frank Kinahan (Critical W. B. Yeats and Philip Larkin’,  Inquiry, ), ,  ‘Mossbawn’,  Interview with George Morgan, Cycnos / ‘Omphalos’,  (July ), , 

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Heaney, Seamus (cont.) Open Letter, An, , –, –, ,  Interview with James Randall (Ploughshares), Opened Ground:Poems –, , ,  , , ,  ‘Orange Drums, Tyrone ’,  ‘In Bellaghy Graveyard’,  ‘Out of This World’,  ‘John Hume’s Derry’ (Hibernia),  ‘Place and Displacement’,  Laments, ,  ‘Place of Writing, The’, ,  Last Walk, The: Translations from the Italian of ‘Pre-Natal Mountain, The: Vision and Irony Giovanni Pascoli,  in Recent ’,  ‘O Vain Dream!’,  Preoccupations, , , ,  ‘Learning from Eliot’, , –, , ,  ‘Belfast’, ,  ‘Lenten Stuff’,  ‘Mossbawn’,  ‘Lighting the Lamp’,  Rattle Bag, The (with Hughes), –,  ‘M’,  Redress of Poetry, The,  ‘Main of Light, The’,  ‘Requiem for the Irish Rebels, Wexford, ‘Makings of a Music, The: Reflections on ’,  Wordsworth and Yeats’, ,  Riverbank Field, The, ,  ‘Men’s Confessions’,  ‘Road to Derry, The’,  Midnight Verdict, The, ,  ‘St Kevin and the Blackbird’,  ‘Mossbawn’, ,  School Bag, The (with Hughes), , , , Munro,  ,  New Selected Poems, ,  Seeing Things, , , , , –, , ‘In Time’, ,  , , , , , ,  North, , , , –, , , , , ‘Crossing, The’,  , , –, , , , ‘Fosterling’, , , , ,  ,  ‘Golden Bough, The’,  ‘Act of Union’, ,  ‘Man and Boy’,  ‘Antaeus’, , , – ‘Markings’,  ‘Betrothal of Cavehill, The’,  ‘Pitchfork, The’,  ‘Bog Queen’,  ‘Royal Prospect, A’,  ‘Bogland’,  ‘Schoolbag, The’, – ‘Bone Dreams’, – ‘Seeing Things’,  ‘Constable Calls, A’, , , – ‘Seeing Things I’,  ‘Exposure’, , , , , ,  ‘Seeing Things II’,  ‘Fosterage’‘,  ‘Squarings’, , , , –, ,  ‘Freedman’,  ‘Lightenings’ i, , – ‘Funeral Rites’, – ‘Lightenings’ v,  ‘Grauballe Man, The’, ,  ‘Lightenings’ vi,  ‘Hercules and Antaeus’, , ,  ‘Lightenings’ viii, ,  ‘Kinship’,  ‘Wheels within Wheels’,  ‘Ministry of Fear, The’, , ,  ‘Sense of Place, The’, –,  ‘North’, , , ,  ‘Sense of the Past, The’,  ‘Ocean’s Love to Ireland’, , ,  ‘Shining Streams, The’, – ‘Punishment’, , , , –, , ‘Sixth Sense, Seventh Heaven’, ,  – ‘Soliloquy for an Old Resident’,  ‘Singing School’,  Spirit Level, The, , –, , ,  ‘Strange Fruit’, , , , – ‘At the Wellhead’, ,  ‘Sunlight’, , ,  ‘Brigid’s Girdle, A’,  ‘Then Belfast, and then Berkeley’,  ‘Call, A’,  ‘Whatever You Say, Say Nothing’, ,  ‘Flight Path, The’, , ,  ‘Now and in England’. See ‘Englands of the ‘Gravel Walks, The’, ,  Mind’ ‘Invocation, An’, ,  ‘Of All Those Starting Out’ (poem, ), ‘Keeping Going’, –, ,  ,  ‘Mycenae Lookout’, –,  ‘October Thought’,  ‘Cassandra’,  ‘Old Derry’s Walls’ (Listener article),  ‘His Dawn Vision’, , 

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‘His Reverie of Water’, ,  ‘Gifts of Rain’,  ‘Watchman’,  ‘Last Mummer, The’, , – ‘Poet’s Chair’, ,  ‘Limbo’, ,  ‘Postscript’, , –, ,  ‘Nerthus’,  ‘Rain Stick, The’, –,  ‘Other Side, The’,  ‘Sofa in the Forties, A’,  ‘Summer Home’,  ‘Strand, The’, ,  ‘Tollund Man, The’, , , , , ‘Swing, The’,  – ‘To a Dutch Potter in Ireland’,  ‘Toome’, , ,  ‘Tollund’, , , , – ‘Traditions’, , , ,  ‘Two Lorries’, – ‘Travel’,  ‘Whitby-sur-Moyola’,  ‘Westering’, – Station Island, , , , , , , ‘Winter’s Tale, A’,  –,  ‘Yeats as an Example?’, , –, ,  ‘Away from it All’, – Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,  ‘Chekhov on Sakhalin’, , ,  Helgesson, Stefan,  ‘Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann, A’,  Hena, Omaar, Global Anglophone Poetry: Literary ‘In Illo Tempore’,  Form and Social Critique in Walcott, ‘Master, The’,  Muldoon, de Kok, and Nagra,  ‘Remembering Malibu’, ,  Henderson, Hamish,  ‘Shelf Life’,  Henley, W. E.,  ‘Old Pewter’,  Henryson, Robert, , , ,  ‘Snowshoe, A’,  Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables, The, , ‘Stone from Delphi’,   ‘Station Island’, , , , , , Herbert, Zbigniew, –, , –, ,  –, –, , , –,  Hewitt, John, , ,  ‘Sweeney Redivivus’, ,  Hibernia,  ‘Ulster Twilight, An’,  Hill, Geoffrey, –, , ,  ‘Underground, The’, ,  History of Ireland in  Objects, A,  ‘Station Island: Jottings for a Poem’,  Hobsbaum, Philip, , , , – Stations,  Group Anthology, A (with Edward Lucie- ‘England’sDifficulty’,  Smith),  ‘Stern’,  London Group, – , , , , , , , Hogg, James, Private Memoirs and Confessions of , – a Justified Sinner,  ‘Tale of Two Islands, A: Reflections on the Holiday, Billie,  ’,  Holub, Miroslav, , ,  ‘To a Wine Jar’,  homelessness, – ‘Torchlight Procession of One’ (Oxford Homer, ,  lecture),  Iliad,  ‘Tradition and an Individual Talent’,  homoeroticism,  ‘Tweed’,  Honest Ulsterman,  ‘Ulster’s Troubles’ (New Statesman),  Hopkins, Gerard Manley, , , , , , ‘Ugolino’, – –,  ‘Villanelle for an Anniversary’,  Horace, ,  ‘Whole Thing, The: On the Good of Poetry’, Odes , xxi,  ,  Hron, Zdeněk,  , , –, , , , , Hughes, Francis,  –, , , , , , Hughes, Olwyn,  , , ,  Hughes, Ted, , , , –, , –, , ‘Anahorish’, , , , ,  , –, , , , ,  ‘Broagh’, –, , , , , , , congratulatory note to Heaney,  ,  Crow,  ‘Bye-Child’, ,  Eastern European influence,  ‘Fodder’, ,  education, , 

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Iceland,  Larkin, Philip, , , –, , ,  Inishbofin,  ‘Aubade’,  intertextuality, , , , ,  ‘Church Going’,  Heaney–MacDiarmid,  Heaney, Seamus IRA, , , –, ,  ‘Joy or Night: Last Things in the Poetry of Irish linguistic traditions, – W. B. Yeats and Philip Larkin’,  Irish rebellion of ,  North Ship, The,  Irish Times, ,  ‘Whitsun Weddings’,  Irish Volunteers,  Lavery, John,  Irish Women’s Liberation Movement,  Lawrence, D. H., , ,  Leavis, F. R., –,  Janáček, Leoš, ,  Ledwidge, Francis,  Jarniewicz, Jerzy,  Lévi-Strauss, Claude,  Jeffares, A. Norman,  Leypoldt, Gu¨nter,  Jennings, Elizabeth,  line-length John Hume’s Derry,  one-word line,  John’s Gospel, Chapter ,  short lines, –, ,  Johnson, James William, Princeton Encyclopedia skinny stanza,  of Poetry and Poetics,  Lloyd, David,  Johnston, Dillon,  London, –,  Joyce, James, –, , , , –, , Longenbach, James,  , – Longley, Edna, , , , , , , ‘Dead, The’,  , , ,  ‘Gas from a Burner’,  Yeats and Modern Poetry,  Finnegans Wake,  Longley, Michael, , , , , , , Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A, ,  –, , ,  Ulysses, ,  ‘Emily Dickinson’,  Joyce, P. W., Irish Names of Places,  Exploded View, An Jung, Carl,  ‘Ghost Town’,  Jungian,  ‘Skara Brae’,  Hundred Doors, A Kalstone, David,  ‘On the Shetlands’,  Kavanagh, Patrick, , , , , , , , ‘Shetland Mouse-ear’,  , , , , , , , ‘Whalsay’,  , ,  No Continuing City ‘Christmas Childhood’,  ‘Hebrides, The’,  ‘Epic’,  ‘Questionnaire for Walter Mitty’,  ‘On Looking into E.V. Rieu’s Homer’,  Lough Beg, 

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Lough Derg, , , , , –, , ‘Train to Dublin’,   ‘Valediction’, – Lough Neagh, , –, ,  I Crossed the Minch,  Lourdes.,  ‘Bagpipe Music’, ,  Lovett, Ann,  MacNeill, Eoin,  Lowell, Robert, , , , –, , , , , Macpherson, James, Ossian,  , , , , ,  Mahon, Derek, –, , ,  Day by Day,  Selected Poems,  Dolphin, The,  ‘Tractatus’,  ‘Epilogue’,  Mandelstam, Osip, –, , , , , , For Lizzie and Harriet, History,  , , , – Imitations,  Mangan, James Clarence,  Life Studies, ,  Marshall, Hanna,  Lucie-Smith, Edward, , –,  masculine, the, – lunar imagery,  Maser,  lyric, Irish vs. Anglo-American, , , – Mason, Patrick,  Maze internment camp,  Mac Giolla Ghunna, Cathal Buí, ‘An Bonnán McAteer, Eddie,  Buí’ (‘The Yellow Bittern’),  McCann, Eamon,  MacBeth, George, – McCarthy, Conor,  MacCaig, Norman, , – McCarthy, Dennis Florence,  MacDiarmid, Hugh, , , –, , ,  McCartney, Colum, –, ,  Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, A, ,  McCormack, W. J.,  Hugh MacDiarmid Anthology, The,  McCullers, Carson,  In Memoriam ,  McDonagh, Enda,  ‘Lament for the Great Music’,  McDonald, Peter, , ,  ‘On a Raised Beach’,  McGann, Jerome, Romantic Ideology,  Stony Limits and Other Poems,  McGlinchey, Father Michael,  ‘With the Herring Fishers’,  McGuckian, Medbh, , – MacGearailt, Seamus,  ‘Dream Language of Fergus, The’,  MacLaverty, Bernard, ,  Selected Poems,  MacLean, Sorley, , – McGuire, Edwards,  ‘Hallaig’,  McLaverty, Michael, , – MacNeice, Louis, –, , , , –, McNally, Randy,  , , ,  Meaney, Gerardine,  Collected Poems,  Meehan, Paula, ‘Statue of the Virgin at Granard ‘Autumn Journal’,  Speaks, The’,  ‘Belfast’,  Meeropol, Abel, ‘Strange Fruit’,  ‘Casualty, The’,  Merriman, Brian,  ‘Charon’,  ‘Cúirt an Mheán Oíche’, ,  ‘Cyclist, The’,  Merton,Thomas,  ‘Eclogue from Iceland’, ,  Middle Scots,  ‘Epitaph for Liberal Poets’,  Miller, Karl, , ,  ‘Introduction, The’,  Miller, Liam, ,  ‘Mayfly’,  Miłosz, Czeslaw, , –, –, , , , ‘Neutrality’,  , , , –, , ,  ‘Once-in-Passing, The’ ‘Child of Europe’,  ‘Postscript to Iceland’,  ‘Incantation’,  ‘’,  Postwar Polish Poetry,  ‘Snow’, ,  ‘The World’,  ‘Soap Suds’,  Milton, John,  ‘Springboard, The’,  monastic scribes,  ‘Star-Gazer’,  Montague, John, ,  ‘Strand, The’,  Monteith, Charles, , , , , , ‘Sunlight on the Garden, The’,  , 

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Sullivan, Moynagh, , , ,  victimhood, , –,  Swift, Jonathan,  Viking poems, ,  Swinburne, Algernon Charles,  Vikings,  Synge, J. M. Virgil, , , , , –,  In the Shadow of the Glen,  Aeneid, , , , , –, , Playboy of the Western World, The,   Riders to the Sea,  Eclogues,  Georgics,  Tara Telephone Publications,  Vulcan, –, – tercets, , ,  Thomas, Dylan, , , , ,  Wain, John,  ‘Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Wainwright, Jeffrey,  Child in London, A’,  Walcott, Derek, , , , ,  Thomas, Edward, ,  Waley, Arthur,  ‘Lob’,  Wallace, Neil,  Thomas, R. S.,  Ward, David,  Times Literary Supplement,  Warner, Deborah,  Tollund Man, , , –,  Warner, Michael,  Toomey, Deirdre,  Watson, George,  translation, , , –, –, , , See Weil, Simone,  also Heaney Seamus: Aeneid Book VI; Weissbort, Daniel,  Beowulf; Burial at Thebes,The; Cure at Wevill, David,  Troy;The; Laments; Midnight Verdict; Whiteread, Rachel, ‘Untitled (One Hundred Sweeney Astray Spaces)’,  Eastern European works, – Whitman, Walt,  metaphorical,  Wilbur, Richard,  of Heaney's works, – Williams, William Carlos, –,  use of short lines,  ‘Red Wheelbarrow, The’,  transnational poetics, , , –, ,  ‘This is Just to Say’,  Trócaire,  Wilson, Edmund, The Wound and the Bow, Trojan War,   Troubles, the, , , , , , –, –, , Wilsons (friends of the Heaneys),  , , , , –, , , Wimsatt, W. K.,  –, , , , , , , Windeby Girl, , ,  , , , –,  Wizard of Oz, The,  typography,  women’s liberation,  Wordsworth, Dorothy,  Ulster dialect, , –,  Wordsworth, William, , , –, , , Ulster Special Constabulary (B-Specials),   Ulster Scots, ,  Prelude, –, –,  underworld, , , , –, – ‘Boy of Winander’,  Catholic, ,  World War One, – Union flag, ,  World War Two, – Unionism, – Wright, James,  University of Oxford,  ‘Writers for Peace’ event,  Updike, John,  Yeats Summer School,  Valéry, Paul, ,  Yeats, George,  Vendler, Helen, , , , , , , Yeats, W. B., –, , –, , –, –, –,  , , –, , , , , Seamus Heaney,  , –, , , , , , ‘Seamus Heaney and the Classical Past’,   abstraction,  Venuti, Laurence,  Auden’s elegy for,  verbalisation,  belief in an afterlife, 

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Index 

Cathleen ni Houlihan,  ‘Long-Legged Fly’,  Celtic Twilight, The,  ‘Man and the Echo’,  ‘Remonstrance with Scotsmen for Having ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’, , , Soured the Disposition of their Ghosts  and Faeries, A’ (‘Scots and Irish ‘Memory’,  Fairies)’,  Michael Robartes and the Dancer ‘Circus Animals’ Desertion, The’,  ‘Demon and Beast’,  ‘Cold Heaven, The’, , – on the Scottish,  comparisons with Heaney, – ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ,  Countess Cathleen, The,  Tower, The,  critique of, – ‘Tower, The’,  ‘Cuchulain Comforted’, – use of Scots vocabulary, – definition of poetry,  Vision, A,  ‘Easter ’,  Wild Swans at Coole, The global reputation,  ‘Shepherd and Goatherd’,  ‘High Talk’,  ‘Wild Swans at Coole, The’,  influence on Heaney, – Young, Kevin, 

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