Burris, Sidney. The Poetry of Resistance: Seamus Heaney and the Pastoral Tradition. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1990, 165 p.

Analyzes Heaney's work in relation to the tradition of pastoral poetry, a form outwardly concerned with nature but encompassing many other philosophical and social concerns. Burris calls Heaney "a deeply literary poet, one whose consolations often lie in the invigorating strains of the poetic tradition itself."

Guenther, Charles. "Strong, Singular Voice Thrives Amid Turmoil." St. Louis Post-Dispatch (5 April 1992): 5C

Positive review of Heaney's Seeing Things.

―――――――. "Irish Poet Who Chronicled 2 Cultures Wins Nobel Prize." St. Louis Post-Dispatch (6 October 1995): 3A.

Report on Heaney's winning the Nobel Prize.

Tapscott, Stephen. "Poetry and Trouble: Seamus Heaney's Irish Purgatorio." Southwest Review 71, No. 4 (Autumn 1986): 519-35.

Discusses the relation of Heaney's work to that of William Butler Yeats and James Joyce, focusing on their contrasting views of Ireland.