On Seamus Heaney av Roy Foster

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<p><b>A vivid and original account of one of Ireland¿s greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer</b><br><br>The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time when nationality was deeply contested, Heaney also won international acclaim, culminating in the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. In <i>On Seamus Heaney</i>, leading Irish historian and literary critic R. F. Foster gives an incisive and eloquent account of the poet and his work against the background of a changing Ireland.<br><br>Drawing on unpublished drafts and correspondence, Foster provides illuminating and personal interpretations of Heaney¿s work. Though a deeply charismatic figure, Heaney refused to don the mantle of public spokesperson, and Foster identifies a deliberate evasiveness and creative ambiguity in his poetry. In this, and in Heaney¿s evocation of a disappe