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Human Chain by Seamus Heaney & Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll

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December 2010–January 2011, no. 327

Human Chain by Seamus Heaney

Faber and Faber, $29.99 hb, 96 pp, 9780571269228

Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll

Faber and Faber, $24.99 pb, 535 pp, 9780571242535

Human Chain by Seamus Heaney & Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O’Driscoll

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December 2010–January 2011, no. 327

Auden wrote of the mature Herman Melville that he ‘sailed into an extraordinary mildness’. The same sort of thing could be found in Seamus Heaney, even though he has always written with a degree of calm, with hospitable decorum. It was this level-headedness that enabled him to write about sectarian violence in the magisterial Station Island poems (1984). Now we have a mild chain before us, rather than a sacred island.

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