Seamus Heaney by Blake Morrison

Seamus Heaney by Blake Morrison

In recent years Seamus Heaney has earned the reputation of being ‘the most important Irish poet since Yeats’. In this book, originally published in 1982, Blake Morrison identifies the central characteristics of his achievement, uncovering the sources of Heaney’s poems, placing his work within both Irish and Anglo-American traditions and explaining his poetry’s complex relation to the political troubles in Northern Ireland. A lively, personal and carefully researched account by a writer who is himself a poet and critic, this book forcefully challenges some of the myths surrounding Heaney’s work and places it in proper perspective.

Original Review of Seamus Heaney:

‘His book is a model of what this kind of introduction ought to be: informative, lucid, unposturing, very good at the difficult art of choosing passages for quotation, skilful in explaining occasional obscurities without intrusive exegetical fuss, and sensitive and authoritative in judgment’ The Times Literary Supplement

Blake Morrison is a poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. He has also written a study of the James Bulger murder, As If. Since 2003, Morrison has been Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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ISBN 13	9781032872278
ISBN 10	1032872276
Title	Seamus Heaney
Author	Blake Morrison
Series	Routledge Revivals
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2024-11-01
Number of pages	94
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