Professing Poetry

Michael Cavanagh

Original title: Professing poetry

earliest edition we have, 2009 Catholic University of America Press, 2012 272 pages

Nobel Prize winning Irish writer Seamus Heaney has been an ambitious critic as well as poet, publishing five books of literary criticism in the four decades of his career. This book surveys his critical essays, setting forth Heaneys poeticshis concept of what poetry should be and what its uses areand relating them to his practice as a poet.

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Professing Poetry edition · 2012 · Catholic University of America Press · 272 pages · 9780813219189
Professing Poetry edition · 2010 · Catholic University of America Press · 9780813218564
Professing poetry edition · 2009 · Catholic University of America Press · 254 pages · 9780813216713

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