Seamus Heaney's Regions

by Richard Rankin Russell

Book Overview

Regional voices from England, Ireland, and Scotland inspired Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel prize-winner, to become a poet, and his home region of Northern Ireland provided the subject matter for much of his poetry. In his work, Heaney explored, recorded, and preserved both the disappearing agrarian life of his origins and the dramatic rise of sectarianism and the subsequent outbreak of the Northern Irish "Troubles" beginning in the late 1960s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268040362
• ISBN13: 9780268040369
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"