Hardcover
1998 · Cambridge, Massachusetts
by Vendler, Helen
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998. Hardcover. VG (Has a few stray smudge, otherwise clean.). Blue paper boards, forest green cloth spine, gilt letters on spine, deep aquamarine & illus. dust jacket, 188 pp. Considers the work of noted Irish poet Seamus Heaney (1939-2013). "Where other books on the Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney have dwelt chiefly on the biographical, geographical, and political aspects of his writing, this book looks squarely and deeply at Heaney's poetry as an art. A reading of the poet's development over the past thirty years, [this book] tells a story of poetic inventiveness, of ongoing experimentation in form and expression. It is an inspired and nuanced portrait of an Irish poet of public as well as private life, whose work has given voice to his troubled times." (dj).
(Inventory #: 153646)