Professing Poetry: Seamus Heaney's Poetics

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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 Heaneys poeticshis concept of what poetry should be and what its uses areand relating them to his practice as a poet.

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Surveys Seamus Heaneyâ™s critical essays, setting forth his poeticsâhis concept of what poetry should be and what its uses areâand relating them to his practice as a poet.