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Introduction: "An art that knows its mind"  1. English or Irish lyric?  2. 60s Heaney  3. Phonetics and feeling - from "Wintering Out" to "Field Work"  4. 70s Heaney  5. "The Limbo of Lost Words" - the Sweeney complex  6. Beyond the alphabet - "The Haw Lantern" and "Seeing Things"  7. Heaney's "Ars Poetica" - Mandelstam, Dante and "The Government of the Tongue"  Conclusion.