num_pages: 240
description: Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential, a motion of the soul." Throughout this collection, Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of a poetic order.
language: English
title: The Redress of Poetry
titlecomplete: The Redress of Poetry
genres: Essays, Ireland, Lit Crit, Poetry, Literature, Criticism, Theory, Nonfiction, Irish Literature, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 262
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux