| The Government of the Tongue Revised Edition Contributor(s): Heaney, Seamus (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374522200 ISBN-13: 9780374522209 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1990 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 821.009 |
| LCCN: 88083545 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.5" W x 8.24" (0.56 lbs) 225 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Heaney, Seamus: - Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats." |