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Tag Archives: Finders Keepers
The Books: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001: ‘Through-Other Places, Through-Other Times: The Irish Poet and Britain,’ by Seamus Heaney
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Seamus Heaney’s Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001. The following … Continue reading
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The Books: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001: ‘The Indefatigable Hoof-Taps: Sylvia Plath,’ by Seamus Heaney
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Seamus Heaney’s Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001. Seamus Heaney … Continue reading
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Tagged essays, Finders Keepers, Ireland, poetry, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath
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The Books: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001: ‘The Placeless Heaven: Another Look at Kavanagh,’ by Seamus Heaney
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Seamus Heaney’s Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001. Seamus Heaney … Continue reading
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The Books: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001: ‘Yeats as an Example?,’ by Seamus Heaney
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Seamus Heaney’s Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001. The Irish … Continue reading
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The Books: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001: ‘Earning a Rhyme,’ by Seamus Heaney
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Seamus Heaney’s Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001. Sometimes when … Continue reading
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The Books: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001: ‘Belfast,’ by Seamus Heaney
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Seamus Heaney’s Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001. My father … Continue reading
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Tagged Belfast, essays, Finders Keepers, Ireland, Irish poetry, politics, Seamus Heaney, war
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The Books: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001: ‘Learning from Eliot,’ by Seamus Heaney
On the essays shelf (yes, there are still more books to excerpt in my vast library. I can’t seem to stop this excerpts-from-my-library project. I started it in 2006!) NEXT BOOK: Seamus Heaney’s Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001. My father … Continue reading
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Tagged essays, Finders Keepers, Ireland, poetry, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot
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