Bernard O'Donoghue is a poet and academic, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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• Introduction: An art that knows its mind 1. English or Irish lyric? 2. 60s Heaney 3. Phonetics and feeling - from Wintering Out to Field Work 4. 70s Heaney 5. The Limbo of Lost Words - the Sweeney complex 6. Beyond the alphabet - The Haw Lantern and Seeing Things 7. Heaney's Ars Poetica - Mandelstam, Dante and The Government of the Tongue Conclusion.

Bernard O'Donoghue is a poet and academic, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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• Introduction: An art that knows its mind 1. English or Irish lyric? 2. 60s Heaney 3. Phonetics and feeling - from Wintering Out to Field Work 4. 70s Heaney 5. The Limbo of Lost Words - the Sweeney complex 6. Beyond the alphabet - The Haw Lantern and Seeing Things 7. Heaney's Ars Poetica - Mandelstam, Dante and The Government of the Tongue Conclusion.

Bernard O'Donoghue is a poet and academic, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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• Introduction: An art that knows its mind 1. English or Irish lyric? 2. 60s Heaney 3. Phonetics and feeling - from Wintering Out to Field Work 4. 70s Heaney 5. The Limbo of Lost Words - the Sweeney complex 6. Beyond the alphabet - The Haw Lantern and Seeing Things 7. Heaney's Ars Poetica - Mandelstam, Dante and The Government of the Tongue Conclusion.