Dec 28, 2009
Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978 (1980) is a collection of memoirs, lectures, reviews, and essays in which Seamus Heaney accounts for his development as a poet. The Government of the Tongue: The T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures and Other Critical Writings (1988) similarly gathers later reviews and lectures, developing his subsequent views on the relationship between society and poetry.
Seamus Heaney’s work has been recognized with some of the most prestigious honors in literary circles. Perhaps his most...
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