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Poetry of Seamus Heaney  
Author: Elmer Andrews (Editor)
ISBN: 0231119275
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
In this collection of critical responses to Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney's poetry, Elmer Andrews presents the debates surrounding the poet's work and popular appeal. The writings gathered in this Columbia Critical Guide clarify and explore issues of cultural identity and nationality, as well as debates on the power of language and the function of verse. Beginning with Heaney's early collection, Death of a Naturalist, the guide reviews and contextualizes material on successive volumes (including 1996's The Spirit Level), so that students of Heaney's verse will find an accessible pathway through the most important critical writings on this major poet.


About the Author
Elmer Andrews teaches at the University of Ulster




Poetry of Seamus Heaney

FROM THE PUBLISHER

In this collection of critical responses to Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney´s poetry, Elmer Andrews presents the debates surrounding the poet´s work and popular appeal. The writings gathered in this Columbia Critical Guide clarify and explore issues of cultural identity and nationality, as well as debates on the power of language and the function of verse. Beginning with Heaney´s early collection, Death of a Naturalist, the guide reviews and contextualizes material on successive volumes (including 1996´s The Spirit Level), so that students of Heaney´s verse will find an accessible pathway through the most important critical writings on this major poet.

     



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