Preoccupations Selected Prose, 1968-1978

"As a prose writer, Mr. Heaney has a nimble, elegant charm, and the ability to rise suddenly, at his best, from conventional ideas to home truths....His ability to go into the texture of poetic language and figures of sound, and his speculations about the way a life and times inform a life's work, remind one that there is a taste to be satisfied by literary criticism. It is odd to rediscover this--to recall that readers who like poetry do indeed have an appetite for substantial writing about poetry."Heaney, Seamus is the author of 'Preoccupations Selected Prose, 1968-1978' with ISBN 9780374516505 and ISBN 0374516502.