I.xv.2. Annotated typescript drafts of poems collected in 'Electric Light',

[n.d.]

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Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
Summary:Worksheets contain drafts of 'The Clothes Shrine', 'A Coat' (collected, with revisions, as Section 4 of 'Ten Glosses'), 'Would They Had Stay'd', 'Two Paintings by Le Douanier Rousseau', 'On a New Work in the English Tongue', 'The Lupins', 'Miraculum' (alternatively titled as 'Tender' in file and collected as 'Out of the Bag' in 'Electric Light'), 'The Loose Box', 'Red, White and Blue', 'Sonnets from the Peloponnese' (collected as 'Sonnets from Hellas'), 'Real Names', 'In the Afterlife' (collected as Section 1 of 'Bodies and Souls'), 'The Bereaved' (collected as Section 3 in 'Bodies and Souls'), 'Attack' (collected as 'The Border Campaign'), 'Bann Valley Ecologue' and 'A Dream of Solstice'.
In collection: Seamus Heaney Literary Papers, 1963-2010
Format: Manuscript
Subjects:
Notes:'Two Paintings by Le Douanier Rousseau' was published in 'Graph' Autumn/Winter 1998.

Taken from a file originally marked as 'Electric' by Heaney.

Department of Manuscripts, National Library of Ireland. There are additional Seamus Heaney manuscripts held in the Department of Manuscripts (MS 41,932/1-3). This consists of manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem 'Sweeney Astray', with additional notes on early Irish poetry;

Physical description: 39 pages.

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Arrangement:Sub-fonds