The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

　　Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporaryliterature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulftranslation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Lightand District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists fordecades. Since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, he has cometo be considered one of the most important English language poetsin the world. This Companion gives an up-to-date overview of hiscareer thus far, and of his reception in Ireland, England andaround the world. Its distinguished contributors offer detailedreadings of all his major publications, in poetry, prose andtranslation. The essays further explore the central themes of hispoetry, his relations with other writers, and his prose writing.Designed for students, this volume will also have much to interestand inform the general reader and admirer of Heaney's unique poeticvoice.