SOURCE: "A Soft Grip on the Sick Place: The Bogland Poetry of Seamus Heaney," in The Dublin Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 3, Autumn-Winter, 1973-1974, pp. 86-90.
In the following essay, Bidwell draws a connection between Heaney's metaphor of the bog and Irish republicanism.
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