Poetry · 1966
Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Poetry · 1966 · Irish · Contemporary
Death of a Naturalist
'Digging' — the pen laid beside the spade.
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Heaney's first book stakes his lifelong bargain: the labour of the fathers translated, not betrayed, by the labour of the poem.
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