The government of the tongue
Subtitle: selected prose, 1978-1987
By: Seamus Heaney
Edition: 1st American ed.
Series: T.S. Eliot memorial lectures (London, England) -- 1986.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9780374165789
Subjects: History and criticism; English poetry; American poetry
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.
Notes: "The second part ... consists of the T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, delivered in October 1986 at Eliot College, in the University of Kent."--P. ix.