II.iii.6. Annotated typescript draft of the lecture 'Sounding Auden',

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Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
Summary:Pages numbered 2-34; page 1 unnumbered. Also attached is an incomplete manuscript untitled draft piece on Auden.
In collection: Seamus Heaney Literary Papers, 1963-2010
Format: Manuscript
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Notes:Lecture delivered as a T.S. Eliot Memorial Lecture, in October 1986 at Eliot College University of Kent, published in the 'London Review of Books' (June 1987) and subsequently collected in 'The Government of the Tongue' (1988).

Taken from a envelope originally marked 'Typescripts with Amendments Government of the Tongue'.

Manuscript annotations written in red ink and dispersed throughout the draft may be written by Helen Vendler.

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: 37 pages.

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Arrangement:Sub-fonds