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The government of the tongue : selected prose, 1978-1987 / Seamus Heaney.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013
- Series:
- T.S. Eliot memorial lectures (London, England) ; 1986.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Poetry, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Poetry, Modern.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 169 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Noonday Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Noonday Press, 1990.
- Summary:
- In this volume of critical essays, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness, and we are reminded, above all, of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself. --Publisher.
- Notes:
- "The second part ... consists of the T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, delivered in October 1986 at Eliot College, in the University of Kent."--P. ix.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies second printing, 1995.
- ISBN:
- 0374522200 :
- 9780374522209
- OCLC:
- 23036764
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