Professor of Poetry at Oxford and lecturer at Harvard, Seamus Heaney is admired both as a poet and a critical writer. This new edition of The Art of Seamus Heaney, published for the first time in paperback, includes four new essays on Heaney's work since 1987: Helen Vendler writes on The Haw Lantern, Douglas Dunn on Seeing Things, Bernard O'Donoghue on Government of the Tongue and Patrick Crotty compares the Selected Poems and the New Selected Poems. Other contributors include Anne Stevenson, Barbara Hardy, Ciaran Carson and Philip Hobsbaum.