The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987

seamus heaney

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.

Genres poetrynonfictionirish literatureirelandliteratureliterary criticism

225 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1988

This edition

Format: 225 pages, Paperback
Published: June 1, 1990 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374522209
ASIN: 0374522200
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.