description: Heaney here scrutinizes the work of several poets, British and Irish, American and European, whose work he considers might call into question the rights of poetic utterance. The author asks whether the voice of the poet should be governed, or whether it should be the governor.
language: English
title: The Government of the Tongue
titlecomplete: The Government of the Tongue
genres: Ireland, Poetry, Literature, Nonfiction, Irish Literature, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 87
publisher: Gardners Books