The Letters of Seamus Heaney Rosie Stockton de reisjournalistiek

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The Letters of Seamus Heaney Rosie Stockton de reisjournalistiekSeamus Heaney "Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were, or the Colmcille beehive hut, or the Mossbawn scullery. At any rate, a hedge surrounds me, the blackbird calls, the soul settles for an hour or two" For all his public eminence, Seamus Heaney seems never to have lost the compelling need to write personal letters. In this ample but discriminating selection from fifty years of his correspondence, we are