Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. A Poet Professing: The Work of Seamus Heaney’s Prose
2. Defending Poetry
3. In the Shadow of Possum: T. S. Eliot and Seamus Heaney
4. Meeting at Midnight: Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell
5. Walking into the Light: Dante and Seamus Heaney’s Second Life
6. Seamus Heaney Returning
7. Fighting Off Larkin: Seamus Heaney and “Aubade”
8. Tower and Boat: Yeats and Seamus Heaney
Works Cited
General Index
Index of Heaney’s Works