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Bibliographic Details
Main Creator:	Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
Summary:	Included are worksheets containing drafts of 'The Biretta', 'A Basket of Chestnuts', 'Glanmore Revisited', 'The Pitchfork', 'The Ash Plant', 'A lightning plot', 'The Perimeter, 'The Maze' (collected as 'A Royal Prospect'), 'The Schoolbag', 'I.I.87', 'An August Night', 'The First Words' (collected in 'The Tree Clock', 1990), 'The Names of the Hare', 'A Retrospect' (fragment), 'Man and Boy' (fragment) and poems from the sequence collectively titled 'Squarings'. Also included are drafts of untitled poems beginning 'To stir illicitly and feel each small/dangerous outburst', 'Imagine, high in a hedge, you are old hay', 'Seven years. The usual spellbound term' and 'Something very old stood watching swallows' and a draft contents page. more
In collection:	Seamus Heaney Literary Papers, 1963-2010
Format:	Manuscript
Subjects:	Heaney, Seamus, > 1939-2013
Notes:	Taken from a single file originally marked as 'Seeing Things' by Heaney. Some drafts are dated, and cover the period 4 December 1988 to 8 December 1990. 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: 193 pages; 4 folders. more
Arrangement:	Sub-fonds