Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary Progressions
Henry Hart
232 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0815626126
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Language: English
Publish: 749372400000
An assessment of Heaney’s poetry and prose, tracing his “contrary progressions” through phases of affirmation and despair. Hart explores Heaney’s work from the 1960s to “The Haw Lantern”, seeking in the poems those elements and traits that Heaney allusively indicates in his prose.