Passage to the center
Subtitle: imagination and the sacred in the poetry of Seamus Heaney
By: Daniel Tobin.
Series: Irish literature, history, and culture
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Heaney, Seamus -- Criticism and interpretation; Religious poetry, English -- Irish authors -- History and criticism; Holy, The, in literature; Ireland -- In literature
Description: 1995 Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, author of nine collections of poetry and three volumes of influential essays, is regarded by many as the greatest Irish poet since Yeats.

Passage to the Center is the most comprehensive critical treatment to date on Heaney's poetry and the first to study Heaney's entire body of work (including his two most recent volumes, Seeing Things and The Spirit Level). It is also the first to examine the poems from the perspective of religion, one of Heaney's guiding preoccupations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-327) and index.