Door into the Dark Delivery:Standard Order Nothing is as it seems

Nothing is as it seems

In the 1790s

Personal and household finance

The poem draws on material from Gill's letters

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Door into the Dark Delivery:Standard Order Nothing is as it seemsOriginally published in 1969, Seamus Heaney's Door into the Dark continues a furrow so startlingly opened in his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966). With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing, these poems graphically depict the author's rural upbringing, from the local forge to the banks of Lough Neagh, concluding in the preserving waters of the bogland and a look ahead to his next