The government of the tongue : selected prose, 1978-1987

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Label

The government of the tongue : selected prose, 1978-1987

Title remainder

selected prose, 1978-1987

Statement of responsibility

Seamus Heaney

Creator

• Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

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. --Publisher

Member of

• T.S. Eliot memorial lectures (London, England), 1986

Cataloging source

ZQP

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction