'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of maturity. The power of this book comes from a sense that he is reaching out towards a type of desolation and of isolation without which no imagination can be seen to have grown up.' Eavan Boland, Irish Times
'Keyed and pitched unlike any other significant poet at work in the language anywhere.' Harold Bloom, Times Literary Supplement
- ISBN10 1336009381
- ISBN13 9781336009387
- Publish Date 1 January 2011 (first published 7 May 1973)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format eBook
- Language English