Synopses & Reviews
Review
"More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of." John Carey
Review
"Heaney's voice, by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive, is one of a suppleness almost equal to consciousness itself." Helen Vendler