Professing poetry
Subtitle: Seamus Heaney's poetics
By: Michael Cavanagh.
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780813216713
Subjects: Heaney, Seamus, -- 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation; Heaney, Seamus, -- 1939- -- Knowledge -- Literature; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Description: Nobel Prize winning Irish writer Seamus Heaney has been an ambitious critic as well as poet, publishing five books of literary criticism in the four decades of his career. This book surveys his critical essays, setting forth Heaneys poeticshis concept of what poetry should be and what its uses areand relating them to his practice as a poet.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.