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The Poetry of Seamus Heaney by Neil Corcoran - a revised edition of his acclaimed A Student's Guide to Seamus Heaney - is the most useful introduction to a singularly varied and important body of work.

About the Author

Neil Corcoran is King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of a biography of Seamus Heaney (1986), as well as Elizabeth Bowen: The Enforced Return (2008) and Shakespeare and the Modern Poet (2010), and is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry (2007).