num_pages: 225
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987
titlecomplete: The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987
genres: Ireland, Poetry, Nonfiction, Literature, Irish Literature, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 87
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux