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One of Ireland's greatest contemporary poets examines the place of poetry and the poet in a world of suffering and injustice, weighing the poet's gift of words against the responsibilities to work in other--civic and humane--realms to effect change
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In this volume of critical essays, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness, and we are reminded, above all, of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself.
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