Redress of Poetry: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford Oct 24 1989

seamus heaney

From the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature comes a collection of essays based on lectures he delivered while Professor of Poetry at Oxford. The great Irish poet delivers wisdom about his craft in a style full of humor and devoid of pedantry. With his expansive spirit, Heaney examines poets such as Brian Merriman, Oscar Wilde, Dylan Thomas and, of course, William Butler Yeats. The Redress of Poetry is a rare opportunity to enter the lecture hall and learn from a master.

Genres poetrynonfictionessaysliterary criticismcriticismirelandliteratureirish literaturelit crit

null pages, Hardcover

First published October 16,1995

This edition

Format: null pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 1990 by Oxford Univ Pr
ISBN: 9780199513321
ASIN: 0199513325
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.