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Seamus Heaney

Electric Light (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney celebrates the humanity of Joyce's vision...

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By Michael Silverblatt • Aug 19, 2004 • 30m Listen

(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney celebrates the humanity of Joyce's vision. He distinguishes his own pastoral Northern Irish voice from that of Joyce, the urban internationalist.

Read an excerpt from Electric Light.

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