Abstract:In 1988, towards the close of the turbulent decade, which in Northern Ireland started with the drama of hunger strikes and in Poland with the strikes in Gdańsk dockyards, the foundation and subsequent suppression of “Solidarity”, Seamus Heaney published The Government of the Tongue, his controversial critical book centered on the question of the poet’s, and poetry’s, responsibilities in a world of suffering and social injustice. In these polemical essays Heaney put forward an image of Eastern European poetry a… Show more
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