Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential, a motion of the soul." Throughout this collection, Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of a poetic order.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 10/30/1996
ISBN: 9780374524883
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.64h x 5.52w x 0.60d

Review Citations: New York Times 12/01/1996 pg. 36