Professing Poetry: Seamus Heaney's Poetics
, by Cavanagh, Michael- ISBN: 9780813218564 | 081321856X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/1/2010
Nobel Prize winning Irish writer Seamus Heaney has been an ambitious critic as well as poet, publishing five books of literary criticism in the four decades of his career. This book surveys his critical essays, setting forth Heaney¿s poetics¿his concept of what poetry should be and what its uses are¿and relating them to his practice as a poet.