Description
A luminous collection of critical essays in which Seamus Heaney examines the work of poets including Robert Lowell, Osip Mandelstam, and Philip Larkin. With characteristic warmth, precision, and poetic insight, he explores the responsibilities of art amid political, civic, and moral pressures, asking how poetry can preserve artistic integrity while engaging with the world. Erudite yet accessible, these essays reveal Heaney’s own deep devotion to poetry and celebrate its power to illuminate experience, conscience, and language.
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paperback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Jan 1, 1990
225 pages
ISBN: 9780374522209
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Details
First Published
1988
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Government of the Tongue by Seamus Heaney.