The Redress of Poetry

seamus heaney

Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential, a motion of the soul." Throughout this collection, Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of a poetic order.

Genres poetrynonfictionessaysliterary criticismcriticismirelandliteratureirish literaturelit crit

240 pages, Paperback

First published October 16,1995

This edition

Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Published: October 30, 1996 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374524883
ASIN: 0374524882
Language: English

About the author

seamus heaney

Works of Irish poet Seamus Justin Heaney reflect landscape, culture, and political crises of his homeland and include the collections Wintering Out (1972) and Field Work (1979) as well as a translation of Beowulf (1999). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995.

This writer and lecturer won this prize "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."

Heaney on Wikipedia.