Description
A revealing collection of essays, lectures, and interviews, this volume offers a wide-ranging portrait of a major poet’s artistic formation and intellectual concerns. Drawing on rural Irish life, history, politics, mythology, and literary tradition, it explores how memory, place, language, and moral responsibility shape the imagination. With characteristic precision and lyricism, the author reflects on poetic craft and on the writers who influenced his vision, providing both an intimate self-portrait and a thoughtful meditation on poetry’s role in culture.
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paperback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Sep 1, 1981
224 pages
ISBN: 9780374516505
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Details
First Published
1980
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Preoccupations by Seamus Heaney.