Ebook: This Strange Loneliness: Heaney's Wordsworth

An in-depth study of William Wordsworth's influence on Seamus Heaney and their shared sense of the power of poetry.

This Strange Loneliness is the first comprehensive account of the poetic relationship between Seamus Heaney and William Wordsworth. Peter Mackay explores how Heaney repeatedly turns to the Romantic poet's work for inspiration, corroboration, and amplification, and as a model for the fortifying power of poetry itself, which offers the fundamental lesson that "it is on this earth 'we find our happiness, or not at all.'"