Seamus Heaney

New Casebooks

by Michael Allen (Editor)

This New Casebook follows the astonishingly rapid growth of a literary reputation, culminating in the winning of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Using reviews as well as extended academic essays, it presents a debate to which the poet himself has made influential critical contributions, and which changes direction with the publication of each new volume of poems. In particular, the Casebook shows how a wide range of contemporary theoretical approaches have been brought into play as Heaney has become increasingly central for readers, students, and critics of contemporary poetry.

279 pages, Hardcover

First published March 5, 1997