Note on the Text

Baldwin Professor in Humanities; Director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts For ease of reference, I have assumed all poems are by Heaney unless indicated otherwise in the text or notes. To avoid repetition, I have used the following abbreviations for book titles: Death of a Naturalist (DN); Door into the Dark (DD); Wintering Out (WO); North (N); Field Work (FW); The Cure at Troy (CAT); Sweeney Astray (SA); Station Island (SI); The Haw Lantern (HL); Seeing Things (ST); Nobel Lecture (NL); The Spirit Level (SL); Electric Light (EL); District and Circle (DC); Human Chain (HC); Finders Keepers (FK); Stepping Stones (SS); Aeneid: Book VI (AVI); and The Letters of Seamus Heaney (LSH).