The redress of poetry / Seamus Heaney.
TITLE:
The redress of poetry / Seamus Heaney.
Publication Date:
1995
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Physical Description:
211 p.
Summary:
These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress spiritual balance and to function as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces in the world. He proceeds to explore how this 'redress' manifests itself in a diverse range of poems and poets.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780374248536
General Note:
Winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.
