Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney Criticism

• Principal Works
• Heaney, Seamus (Vol. 171)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism
    • A Poetic Conscience
    • Tracing Seamus Heaney
    • The Parish and the Dream: Heaney and America, 1969-1987
    • Seamus Heaney's ‘Middle Voice.’
    • The Great Irish Elk: Seamus Heaney's Personal Helicon
    • Catching the Heart Off Guard: The Generous Vision of Seamus Heaney
    • The Redress of Poetry
    • Review of The Spirit Level
    • Powers of Earth and Visions of Air
    • The State of Poetry
    • Poetry Roundup
    • Seeing and Believing
    • Opened Ground
    • Measures of a Poet
    • Beowulf for the Big-Voiced Scullions
    • Scullionspeak
    • This Old Dragon Still Breathes Fire
    • Following Seamus Heaney's ‘Follower’: Toward a Performative Criticism
    • Seamus Heaney's Beowulf
    • Review of Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney
    • ‘Customary Rhythms’: Seamus Heaney and the Rite of Poetry
    • A Scratchy Woollen Jumper That Doesn't Quite Fit
    • The Mother Tongue
    • Like Peat-Smoke Mulling
    • Review of Electric Light
    • Review of Electric Light
    • A Force for Good
  • Further Reading
• Heaney, Seamus (Vol. 5)
• Heaney, Seamus (Vol. 7)
• Heaney, Seamus (Vol. 91)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • Deeper than Declared: On Seamus Heaney
    • An introduction to Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary Progressions
  • Award Announcements
    • Irish Poet Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
    • Laureate and Symbol, Heaney Returns Home
  • Interviews
    • Seamus Heaney: Vindication of the Word 'Poet'
    • Interviews
  • Review Of Heaney's Most Recent Work
    • Professing Poetry
  • Further Reading
• Heaney, Seamus (Vol. 14)
  • Introduction
  • Seamus Heaney's Third Book of Poems
  • More Poetry Matters
  • World Literature in Review: 'North'
  • The Nation of Poets
  • 'Hoarder of Common Ground': Tradition and Ritual in Seamus Heaney's Poetry
  • Landscape with Poems
  • The Music of What Happens
  • Poets Who Have Learned Their Trades: 'Field Work'
• Heaney, Seamus (Justin)
  • Introduction
  • Four New Voices: Poets of the Present
  • Seamus Heaney
  • The Recognition of the Savage God: Poetry in Britain Today
  • The Music of What Happens
  • Seamus Heaney's: 'Salvation in Surrender'
  • Seamus Heaney: The Ground Possessed
  • The Voice of Kinship
  • A Fine Way with the Language
  • Seamus Heaney: Poetry and Power
  • The Hiding Places of Power
  • A Poet's Prose
  • The Prose of an Irish Poet
  • Seamus Heaney: Peat, Politics and Poetry
  • Matters of Ireland: Recent Irish Poetry
  • Digs
• Heaney, Seamus
  • Introduction
  • Criticism
    • Description as Poetry
    • A Soft Grip on the Sick Place: The Bogland Poetry of Seamus Heaney
    • Beginnings
    • Poetry and Terror
    • Field Work
    • The Matter of Ireland and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
    • Crossed Pieties
    • A review of Station Island
    • An interview with Seamus Heaney
    • Seamus Heaney's Poetry of Meditation: Door into the Dark
    • Second Thoughts
    • An interview with Seamus Heaney
    • Seamus Heaney's Anxiety of Trust in Field Work
    • Heaney and the Pastoral Persuasion
    • A review of Seeing Things
    • Seeing Things in a Jungian Perspective: Archetypal Elements in Seamus Heaney's Recent Poetry
  • Further Reading