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John Kerrigan

  • Opened Ground: Poems 1966-96 by Seamus Heaney
  • The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Study by Neil Corcoran
  • Seamus Heaney by Helen Vendler

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John Kerrigan is a professor of English at Cambridge. Archipelagic English: Literature, History and Politics 1603-1707 is due this month.

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