| Cl1apter 1. THE OMPHALOS AND THE WORLD TREE 15 Omphalos (15) The omphalos in "Mossbawn"(17) The omphalos in "Toome Road"(20) lrish hislory and American space in "Bogiand"(21) lrish conlinuily and English disruplions in "Bogi and"(22) Origin and/as absence (24) Absences: Heaney meets Larkin (27) Eyes ol lhe quemstones in "Belderg"(29) The bleeding Iree in "Sibyl"(33) Changes (34) Chapter 2. HISTORY AS CONTlNUITY AND REPETITION Heaney's historiosophy (37) Conlinuily and geo/genealogy in "Oigging"(40) Hislory as musie (44) Sons and lollowers (47) Synchrony (50) The palimpsesl (51) Chapler 3. DISCONTINUITIES A. HEANEY'S PASTORALISM: NEGOTIATING BETWEEN UNITY ANO OIVERSITY. Heaney's relrogressive hisloriosophy (54) Noslalgia, ulopia, and Ihe apocalypse (55) From innocence lo mortality (57) Childhood and/as Ihe Golden Age (58) Fali into Hislory (58) History and pasloralism in "Al a Potato Oigging"(60) The One and Ihe Many (62) The Filth Province (64) B, HEANEY'S PRE-CHRISTIAN VISlON. Pre-Chrislian Ireland (66) Belore Babel (69) Allemative hislory in "Funeral Riles"(71) Negolialing belween Ihe pagan and the Chrislian ethos in Heaney's bog poems (74) Tropological analysis ol "Punishment"(81) Chapter 4. THE POL YPHONY OF HISTORY Voices, lexts and Ihe past (84) Enlextualizing history in "For the Commander ol the Eliza"(86) Polyphonic narralives in "Requiem lor Ihe Croppies"(89) Heaney's use ol Iypology (92) History as lranslation. Allemalive hislory in "Fodder"(93) Quolalion marks in "Bog Oak"(95) "Ocean's Love lo Cynlhia"(98) Compeling narralives ol hislOry in "Parabie Island"(100) Chapler 5. ART, PHOTOGRAPHY AND HISTORY Art as medialion lor history (107) Reclaiming hislOry in "In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge"(109) Art as bogi and (114) Hislory embalmed in art: "The Seed Cullers"(114) Pholography, images and reality (118) The prison-house ol represenlation in Heaney's bog poems (122) Chapler 6. PUBLIC HISTORY AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCE History as Ihe public domain (127) Personalizalion ol hislory (129) The public and Ihe personal in Heaney's bog poems (132) Tasling hislory in "Toome"and "Oysters"(133) Shilting pronouns in "Alter a Killing"(138) Oomeslic elegies in Field Work (140) Chapter 7. HISTORY IN EVERYOAY OBJECTS 144 Heaney's indirect approach to history (144) Desmond Fennell's cńtique (144) History incamate (145) Everyday objects in the poetry ol history: Heaney and Herbert compared (148) Allegońcal translormations. History as sedimentation (150) Objects lrom the shelf (153) Travelling through history (154) "Granite Chip"(154) "The Iron Spike"(155) Immanent transcendence (157) The Iinguistic history ol the biretta (158) Duality overcome (159) Emblems ol continuity (161) Objects and personał history (164) "A Sola in the Forties"(165) Different trains (166) "The Swing"(168) Conclusion. OIGGING AND STITCHING 171 | 
