ON SEAMUS HEANEY

A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer The most imp ortant Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian viole nce. A national figure at a time when nationality was deeply contested, Heaney also won international acclaim, culminating in the No bel Prize for Literature in 1995. In On Seamus Heaney, leading Irish historian and literary critic R. F. Foster gives an incisive an d eloque...[Llegir més]