Seamus Heaney

“The most astute and eloquent critic of poetry at work today.”
—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

A renowned American critic charts the creative evolution of the greatest Irish poet since Yeats.

If other books on Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney have dwelled on the biographical, geographical, and political aspects of his writing, Helen Vendler looks squarely and deeply at his poetic art. Tracing the eminent poet’s development from his beginnings in Death of a Naturalist (1966) through The Spirit Le...