Volume 27, Number 3 · March 6, 1980
A Fine Way With the Language
By Al Alvarez
Field Work
by Seamus Heaney
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 65 pp., $8.95
Field Work is Seamus Heaney's fifth collection of verse. He published his first in 1966 and since then his output has been steady and discreet. Like his poetry: steady, discreet, reliable, and highly successful. He has won all the prizes and the reviews of his books have been so unanimous in their praise that now the question of his excellence is no longer discussed; the reviewers content themselves with explicating the subtleties of his textures or his references, as if he were some younger Eliot or Yeats.
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