The Government of the Tongue (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Seamus Heaney
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Critical essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Dictators, Politics, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Violence, Singing or singers, Ireland or Irish people
Seamus Heaney’s second collection of critical essays follows many of the themes and further examines many of the individual subjects of his first volume, Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978 (1980). The initial collection was loosely organized around three themes: deliberations on Heaney’s developing poetic philosophy, explorations of the work of poets he admired, and personal recollections and observations about his growth as a man and a poet. Heaney’s strong voice unites it all, but there is still a sense of randomness, of discovery through the process of composition,...
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