Seamus Heaney

by Helen Vendler

Book Overview

Poet and critic are well met, as one of our best writers on poetry takes up one of the world's great poets.

Where other books on the Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney have dwelt chiefly on the biographical, geographical, and political aspects of his writing, this book looks squarely and deeply at Heaney's poetry as art. A reading of the poet's development over the past thirty years, Seamus Heaney tells a story of poetic inventiveness,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674002059
• ISBN13: 9780674002050
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.7"