Title: The government of the tongue
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.
Subjects: History and criticism, English poetry, American poetry, Modern Poetry, Fiction, general
Time periods: 20th century