Door into the Dark
| By: | Seamus Heaney |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Published: | February 2014 |
| Pages: | 53 |
| Categories: | Poetry |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Hardback, Paperback, Ebook |
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Door into the Dark, Seamus Heaney's second collection of poems, first appeared in 1969. Already his widely celebrated gifts of precision, thoughtfulness, and musicality were everywhere apparent.
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