ENG 368 Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet
This course offers a critical examination of the poetry, prose and historical place of Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), a writer once boldly described as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats." Students study Heaney's emergence in the so-called 'Belfast Group' of the 1960s and explore his nascent critical legacy, the broad impact his life and work has exerted on the contemporary reception of Irish poetry across the Anglophone world.