Finders Keepers: Selected Prose, 1971-2001 Book

	Preface
	Mossbawn	3
	from Feeling into Words	14
	Learning from Eliot	26
	Belfast	39
	Cessation 1994	45
	Earning a Rhyme	48
	Something to Write Home About	56
	On Poetry and Professing	67
	Englands of the Mind	77
	Yeats as an Example?	96
	Place and Displacement: Recent Poetry from Northern Ireland	112
	The Placeless Heaven: Another Look at Kavanagh	134
	The Main of Light	145
	Atlas of Civilization	153
	from Envies and Identifications: Dante and the Modern Poet	168
	from The Government of the Tongue	180
	from Sounding Auden	191
	Lowell's Command	201
	from The Indefatigable Hoof-taps: Sylvia Plath	218
	W. B. Yeats and Thoor Ballylee	232
	Thomas Kinsella	239
	Edwin Muir	246
	from The Redress of Poetry	257
	from Extending the Alphabet: Christopher Marlowe	262
	John Clare's Prog	275
	A Torchlight Procession of One: Hugh MacDiarmid	293
	from Dylan the Durable? On Dylan Thomas	312
	Joy or Night: Last Things in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Philip Larkin	316
	from Counting to a Hundred: Elizabeth Bishop	332
	Burns's Art Speech	347
	Through-Other Places, Through-Other Times: The Irish Poet and Britain	364
	Stevie Smith's Collected Poems	385
	Joyce's Poetry	388
	Italo Calvino's Mr. Palomar	391
	Paul Muldoon's the Annals of Chile	395
	Norman MacCaig	399
	Joseph Brodsky 1940-1996	403
	On Ted Hughes's 'Littleblood'	407
	Secular and Millennial Milosz	410