The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987

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.

Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 06/01/1990
Pages: 225
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.50w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780374522209

About the Author

Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His most recent translations are Beowulf and Diary of One Who Vanished. His most recent collection of poems is Opened Ground.

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