1Seamus Heaney, "Crediting Poetry",in Opened Ground: Selected Poems !966 -1996, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998,p.416.
2Seamus Heaney, "The Harvest Bow", Field Work, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979,p.50.
3Seamus Heaney, "The Blackbird of Glanmore" ,District and Circle, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006, p.78.
4Seamus Heaney, " A Herbal", Human Chain, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010, pp.42-44.
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6Dennis O 'Driscoll,Stepping Stones :Interviews with Seamus Heaney,New York:Farrar,Straus and Giroux, 2008, pp. 19-20.
7Seamus Heaney, "Digging",Death of a Naturalist,Lon- don:Faber and Faber, 1966 ,p.2.
8Seamus Heaney, "The Harvest Bow",~eld Work,New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979, p.50.
9Seamus Heaney, "Mid-Term Break",Death of a Natu- ralist, London : Faber and Faber, 1966, p. 15.
10Seamus Heaney, "A Plaeeless Heaven:Another Look at Kavanagh" ,in Finders Keepers :Selected Prose 1971 - 2001, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002, p. 146.