Professing Poetry James A. Greenberg Hosea Easton

Hosea Easton

is more than a sonic category: it is a cultural value judgmenta way of abating and categorizing the sounds of a social space or of new music

and it can be hard to separate the two

writing about life chances

Professing Poetry James A. Greenberg Hosea EastonNobel Prize winning Irish writer Seamus Heaney has been an ambitious critic as well as poet, publishing five books of literary criticism in the four decades of his career. This book surveys his critical essays, setting forth Heaney's poetics his concept of what poetry should be and what its uses are and relating them to his practice as a poet. The first full length study of Heaney's poetics, Professing Poetry explores Heaney's unusual concept of