📱 eBook en inglés THE HAW LANTERN

Widely and justly celebrated for his flawless handling of the lyric, Seamus Heaney is here shown venturing into new imaginative territory. Poems exploring the theme of loss, and in particular a sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poets mother, are joined in The Haw Lantern by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an allegorical vein that will both surprise and delight the many admirers of his previous work.

More than other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of. John Carey, Sunday Times