SOURCE: A review of Seeing Things, in Poetry, (Chicago), Vol. CLX, No. 3, June, 1992, pp. 170-74.
In the following mixed review, Logan faults Heaney for writing "poems" instead of poetry, asserting that the poems in Seeing Things lack passion and instinct.
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