Troubles
David Trotter, 23 June 1988
The Government of the Tongue: The 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, and Other Critical Writings
by Seamus Heaney.
Faber, 172 pp., £12.95, June 1988,0 571 14796 8 Show More
by Seamus Heaney.
Faber, 172 pp., £12.95, June 1988,
“... attractive to a reader whose formative experience has been largely Irish.’ Poets like Zbigniew Herbert, ‘neither vindictive against art nor occluded to pain’, or Miroslav Holub, whose awareness of the ‘bounded condition’ of life in the Eastern bloc ensures his ‘inner freedom’, can teach us not to be abashed. The terms of Heaney’s own ... ”