The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists for decades. Since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, he has come to be considered one of the most important English language poets in the world. This Companion gives an up-to-date overview of his career thus far, and of his reception in Ireland, England and around the world. Its distinguished contributors offer detailed readings of all his major publications, in poetry, prose and translation. The essays further explore the central themes of his poetry, his relations with other writers, and his prose writing. Designed for students, this volume will also have much to interest and inform the general reader and admirer of Heaney's unique poetic voice.

Author: Bernard O'Donoghue
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/01/2009
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780521547550

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2009
London Review of Books 06/11/2009 pg. 19

About the Author
O'Donoghue, Bernard: - Bernard O'Donoghue is Fellow of Wadham College and University Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford.