I.iii. 'Door Into The Dark' ,
1969.
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| Summary: | Annotated typescript and manuscript drafts of poems for possible inclusion in the collection 'Door Into The Dark', first published in 1969. Includes drafts of 'In Gallerus Oratory', 'The Salmon Fisher to the Salmon', untitled poem collected as 'Bann Clay', 'The Peninsula' (untitled draft dated 23/1/1966), 'A Lough Neagh Sequence'. 'The Given Note' (draft has ink doodles), 'At Ardboe Point', 'The Wife's Tale', 'Persephone' (collected as 'Rite of Spring'), 'Elegy for an Unborn Child' (collected as 'Elegy for a Still-Born Child'), 'Undine', 'Pump', 'Astray', 'Night-Piece', 'Lint Water', 'Requiem for Croppies', 'The Forge' (alternatively titled as 'The Forge and the Man' in file), 'Bogland', 'Patrick', 'Whinlands', 'Shoreline' and 'A Mother'. |
| In collection: | Seamus Heaney Literary Papers, 1963-2010 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
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| Notes: | Taken from a folder marked by Heaney as 'Door Into The Dark'. 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: 1 folder, 44 pp. more |
| Arrangement: | Sub-fonds |
