Dazzling Philosophy

Michael Hofmann

  • Seeing things by Seamus Heaney
    Faber, 113 pp, £12.99, June 1991, ISBN 0 571 14468 3

Seeing things, Seamus Heaney’s ninth volume of new poems, is aimed squarely at transcendence. The title has a humble and practical William Carlos Williams ring to it, but that is misleading. It is better understood as having been distilled from ‘I must be seeing things’, said seriously, and with a fair amount of stress on the ‘I must’.

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