num_pages: 232
description: An assessment of Heaney's poetry and prose, tracing his "contrary progressions" through phases of affirmation and despair. Hart explores Heaney's work from the 1960s to "The Haw Lantern", seeking in the poems those elements and traits that Heaney allusively indicates in his prose.
language: English
title: Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary Progressions
titlecomplete: Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary Progressions
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 9
series: Irish Studies, Syracuse University Press
publisher: Syracuse University Press