On Seamus Heaney

by Roy Foster

Book Overview

A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer

The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time when nationality was deeply contested, Heaney also won international acclaim, culminating in the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. In On...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691234043
• ISBN13: 9780691234045
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.3" x 7.2"