SOURCE: "Seamus Heaney: Vindication of the Word 'Poet'," in Publishers Weekly, Vol. 242, No. 49, December 4, 1995, pp. 42-3.
[In the following essay, which is based on an interview with Heaney, Bing discusses the poet's early work and the ideas that led to his book, The Redress of Poetry.]
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