Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney by Daniel Tobin
As perhaps the first to critically assess the oeuvre of the 1995 Nobel Laureate from the perspective of religion, a Heaney guiding preoccupation, Tobin (English, Carthage College) navigates nine collections of poetry including the most recent, The Spirit Level (1996) with the image of a sacred groun