Title: Professing poetry
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.
Subjects: Literature, Criticism and interpretation, Knowledge, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Heaney, seamus, 1939-2013, English literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Knowledge and learning
People: Seamus Heaney (1939-)