SOURCE: An introduction to Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary Progressions, Syracuse University Press, 1992, pp. 1-8.
[Hart is an American critic and educator. In the following essay, his introduction to Seamus Heaney, he examines Heaney's development as a poet, focusing on his position in—and his reactions to—Ireland's literary and political history.]
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