The Government of the Tongue Selected Prose, 1978-1987 |
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Author:
| Heaney, Seamus |
ISBN: | 978-0-374-16578-9 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1989 |
Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $17.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.