num_pages: 232
description: A comprehensive assessment of Heaney's poetry and an excellent introduction to his work, tracking his "contrary progressions" through phases of affirmation and anxiety.
language: English
title: Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary Progressions
titlecomplete: Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary Progressions (Irish Studies)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 9
series: Irish Studies, Syracuse University Press
publisher: Syracuse University Press