Non Fiction
Category: Criticism, Non Fiction
Number of pages: 280
ISBN: 9781854112569
Publication date: December 22, 2000
Price: £12.95
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Seamus Heaney is the foremost Irish poet since Yeats and one of the most popular poets writing in English today. The poetry and criticism of the Nobel Prize Winner are of indisputable importance to contemporary literature.
This fourth edition of The Art of Seamus Heaney adds new essays on Heaney’s most recent books by critics, Tim Kendall, John Goodby and Helen Phillips, to those by Helen Vendler, Douglas Dunn, Edna Longley, Anne Stevenson, Bernard O’Donoghue, Philip Hobsbaum and Ciaran Carson among others. The book also features the facsimiles of the drafts of ’North’ – one of Heaney’s most important early poems – which allow the reader to follow its development.
Tony Curtis
Poet, critic, essayist, expert on Welsh Art, Tony Curtis was born in Carmarthen in West Wales in 1946. He studied at Swansea University and Goddard College, Vermont. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including his latest: From the Fortunate Isles: New and Selected Poems. He has also written volumes of critical work on poets and artists and edited popular anthologies of poetry. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at the University of South Wales, where he established and was Director of the MPhil in Writing for many years. He has been elected to the Royal Society of Literature and has toured widely reading his poetry to international audiences.
