SOURCE: "Heaney and the Pastoral Persuasion," in The Poetry of Resistance: Seamus Heaney and the Pastoral Persuasion, Ohio University Press, 1990, pp. 1-34.
In the following excerpt, Burris places Heaney's poetry within the context of pastoral tradition.
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