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"Collected lectures and reviews by the gifted Irish poet Seamus Heaney . . . dealing intimately with composition as an act of mind more profound than mere rhetoric, and showing how the circumstances of composition extend to the most urgent, painful historical questions."--Robert Pinsky,
The New York Times Book Review"We should feel privileged when a poet admits us to his workshop, as Seamus Heaney seems to do in
Preoccupations."--John Montague,
The Guardian --
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Review
"Collected lectures and reviews by the gifted Irish poet Seamus Heaney . . . dealing intimately with composition as an act of mind more profound than mere rhetoric, and showing how the circumstances of composition extend to the most urgent, painful historical questions."--Robert Pinsky, The New York Times Book Review
"We should feel privileged when a poet admits us to his workshop, as Seamus Heaney seems to do in Preoccupations."--John Montague, The Guardian
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