The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987
Seamus Heaney
225 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0374522200
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Language: English
Publish: 644223600000
IrelandIrish LiteratureLiterary CriticismLiteratureNonfictionPoetry
In this volume of critical essays, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney’s gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness, and we are reminded, above all, of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself.