The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (769 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374522200 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 225 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars James J. Garvey Just like attending a series of lectures on poetry by one of the greatest modern poets. Brilliant.
Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness, and we are reminded, above all, of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself.. In this volume of critical essays, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets
Then, turning to T. From Publishers Weekly The 20th century saw the emergence of the poet as witnessvoicing solidarity with the doomed, the victimized, the dispossessed. H. Auden, Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath each became an "antenna," getting beyond the ego to voice the spiritual yearnings and anxieties of our time. Irish poet Heaney here gauges this trend in essays on Wilfred Owen, Osip Mandelstam, Zbigniew Herbert. . S. Heaney has a fine ear for Derek Walcott's lush Caribbean verse, which he calls "a common resource," and for "the wire-sculpture economy" of Miroslaw Holub's games of knowledge. Eliot's The Waste Land, he affirms the healing value of poetry as its own vindicating force, restoring us to our true selves. Interrelated essays investigate the ways in which W. He admits that the power of the poem to change t
Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His most recent collection of poems is Opened Ground.. His most recent translations are Beowulf and Diary of One Who Vanished