SOURCE: "The Matter of Ireland and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney," in Dutch Quarterly Review, Vol. IX, No. 1,1979, pp. 4-23.
In the following excerpt, Zoutenbier traces the thematic and stylistic development of Heaney's verse.
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