An assessment of Heaney's poetry and prose, tracing his contrary progressions through phases of affirmation and despair. Hart explores Heaney's work from the 1960s to The Haw Lantern, seeking in the poems those elements and traits that Heaney allusively indicates in his prose.
An assessment of Heaney's poetry and prose, tracing his contrary progressions through phases of affirmation and despair. Hart explores Heaney's work f...
A fascinating biography of one of the most popular, colorful, and notorious American poets of our century.
The legendary Southern poet James Dickey never shied away from cultivating a heroic mystique. Like Norman Mailer and Ernest Hemingway, he earned a reputation as a sportsman, boozer, war hero, and womanizer as well as a great poet, novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. But James Dickey made lying both a literary strategy and a protective camouflage; even his family and closest friends failed to distinguish between the mythical James Dickey and the actual man. Henry Hart...
A fascinating biography of one of the most popular, colorful, and notorious American poets of our century.
