Heaney's poetic mind and practice: from "Feeling into words" to "The government of the tongue" and "The redress of poetry"

• Autores: María Pilar Abad García
• Localización: Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses: RAEI, ISSN-e 2171-861X, ISSN 0214-4808, Nº. 5, 1992 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Modern Anglo-Irish Literature / coord. por Brian Peter Hughes Cunningham), págs. 17-22
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article focuses on the noteworthy intellectual and artistic coherence apparent in the relationship between Seamus Heaney's poetic mind and his work, particularly as displayed in three of his prose writings belonging to distinct stages of his literary careen From there, the article moves on to consider broadly some aspects of Heaney's poetic corpus as artistic evidence of this coherence and to appraise Heaney's position within the realm of contemporary Irish poetry.