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by: Seamus Heaney See Larger Image Amazon.com's Price: $21.00 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 821.009 EAN: 9780374524883 ISBN: 0374524882 Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: October 30, 1996 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Sales Rank: 847799 Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Related Items: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 Seeing Things The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987 Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 The Spirit Level see more Editorial Review: Product Description: Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: 'To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential, a motion of the soul.' Throughout this collection, Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of a poetic order. Amazon.com Review: From the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature comes a collection of essays based on lectures he delivered while Professor of Poetry at Oxford. The great Irish poet delivers wisdom about his craft in a style full of humor and devoid of pedantry. With his expansive spirit, Heaney examines poets such as Brian Merriman, Oscar Wilde, Dylan Thomas and, of course, William Butler Yeats. The Redress of Poetry is a rare opportunity to enter the lecture hall and learn from a master. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Strong Enough To Help The Redress of Poetry is a series of lectures given by Seamus Heaney at Oxford; in all of them, he examines poetry and how it can be strong enough to help the reader, to act as an equal force to the life lived by the reader. He looks at all kinds of poets - Dylan Thomas, Christopher Marlowe, Yeats, Wilde and Bishop - and of course talks about his own position as a Catholic from the Northern Ireland living in Dublin. In all the lectures Heaney is wonderfully informal and funny, while still solidly ... Read More

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