Heaney, Seamus | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Biography

Buttel, Robert. Seamus Heaney. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 88 p.

Biographical and critical study of Heaney.

Corcoran, Neil. Seamus Heaney. London: Faber and Faber, 1986, 192 p.

Provides a biographical and critical overview. Corcoran includes a select bibliography.

Quinlan, Kieran. 'Tracing Seamus Heaney." World Literature Today 69, No. 1 (Winter 1995): 63-8.

Overviews the poet's life and verse, emphasizing the political nature of both.

Criticism

Andrews, Elmer. "The Gift and the Craft: An Approach to the Poetry of Seamus Heaney." Twentieth Century Literature XXI, No. 4 (Winter 1985): 368-79.

Determines the influence of Patrick Kavanaugh and William Wordsworth on Heaney's work.

Balakian, Peter. "Seamus Heaney's New...

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