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  • Introducing selections from the work of Seamus Heaney in The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing III, Seamus Deane writes: "His poetry is excavatory in every sense, reaching down into the ground and back into the past."

    Insight: Poetic Visions of the Past 2000

  • If only we could harness and direct such excavatory energies.

    Wild Animals at Home Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

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