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Seamus Heaney

A Collection of Critical Essays

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. Michael Allen
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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Michael Allen
    Pages 1-20

  3. Growing Up: Review of Death of a Naturalist

    • Christopher Ricks
    Pages 21-24

  4. A Slow North-east Wind: Review of North

    • Conor Cruise O’brien
    Pages 25-29

  5. ‘Inner Emigré’ or ‘Artful Voyeur’? Seamus Heaney’s North

    • Edna Longley
    Pages 30-63

  6. Seamus Heaney: The Timorous and the Bold

    • Seamus Deane
    Pages 64-77

  7. Representation in Modern Irish Poetry

    • Eamonn Hughes
    Pages 78-94

  8. The Mouth, the Meal and the Book: Review of Field Work

    • Christopher Ricks
    Pages 95-101

  9. Review of Field Work

    • Terry Eagleton
    Pages 102-106

  10. Writing a Bare Wire: Station Island

    • Neil Corcoran
    Pages 107-128

  11. The Government of the Tongue

    • Seamus Heaney
    Pages 129-146

  12. The Sign of the Cross: Review of The Government of the Tongue

    • Thomas Docherty
    Pages 147-154

  13. ‘Pap for the Dispossessed’: Seamus Heaney and the Poetics of Identity

    • David Lloyd
    Pages 155-184

  14. ‘Bog Queens’: The Representation of Women in the poetry of John Montague and Seamus Heaney

    • Patricia Coughlan
    Pages 185-205

  15. Ana-; or Postmodernism, Landscape, Seamus Heaney

    • Thomas Docherty
    Pages 206-222

  16. The Distance Between: Seamus Heaney

    • Stan Smith
    Pages 223-251

  17. Paradigms of Possibility: Seamus Heaney

    • Richard Kirkland
    Pages 252-266

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 267-279
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Written by the author of "The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: All the Realms of Whisper" and "Contemporary Irish Poetry: A Collection of Critical Essays", this is a collection of critical essays on Seamus Heaney.

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