The Government of the Tongue. The 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures and other Critical Writings. London: Faber & Faber, 1989. First Paperback Edition. A nice bright copy.

Signed by Seamus Heaney on title page.

A collection of critical essays scrutinizing the work of several poets selected from Heaney’s prose writings since ‘Preoccupations’ (1984).