Reviews round-up
The Poems of Seamus Heaney
by Seamus Heaney
5 of 6 critics positive
6 reviews: 3 raves, 2 positives, 1 mixed
What the critics said
Rave
Read the review ↗“confirm the extent of his achievement”
‘The Music of What Happens’ | Nick Laird
Rave
Read the review ↗“reveal his colossal achievement”
The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement | Poetry
Rave
Read the review ↗“Affirms Seamus Heaney’s Towering Genius”
This 1,200-Page Poetry Book Affirms Seamus Heaney’s Towering Genius
Positive
Read the review ↗“attuned to wonder, replete with humanity and rooted in the tragedies of history”
Seamus Heaney’s poems for a darkening age
Positive
Read the review ↗“kept up a staggeringly high strike rate of good poems”
Seamus Heaney kept up a staggeringly high strike rate of good poems
Mixed
Read the review ↗“the Irish poet was rooted in darkness and mud”
In the bogs with Seamus Heaney
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