A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. (Seamus Heaney)

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Seamus Heaney

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