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Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney FROM THE PUBLISHER
1995 Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, author of nine collections of poetry and three volumes of influential essays, is regarded by many as the greatest Irish poet since Yeats. Passage to the Center is the most comprehensive critical treatment to date on Heaney's poetry and the first to study Heaney's entire body of work (including his two most recent volumes, Seeing Things and The Spirit Level). It is also the first to examine the poems from the perspective of religion, one of Heaney's guiding preoccupations.
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As perhaps the first to critically assess the oeuvre of the 1995 Nobel Laureate from the perspective of religion, a Heaney guiding preoccupation, Tobin (English, Carthage College) navigates nine collections of poetryincluding the most recent, (1996)with the image of a sacred grounded center amidst concerns about modern civilization's lack of such. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)
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