"An original and innovative study of Seamus Heaney's poetry and prose, an overdue and welcome addition. . . . the first piece of groundbreaking scholarship that I have read on the subject in years. [It] should convince many that Heaney has been working toward an imaginative expression of Irishness that rivals that of James Joyce."--Michael R. Molino, Southern Illinois University "Exceptional. . . . With a mixture of insightful literary theory and...