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The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987
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The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987 Hardcover - 1989

by Seamus Heaney


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  • Title The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987
  • Author Seamus Heaney
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 225
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
  • Date February 1, 1989
  • ISBN 9780374165789 / 0374165785
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88-83545
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.009

About the author

Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His most recent translations are "Beowulf" and "Diary of One Who Vanished." His most recent collection of poems is "Opened Ground."
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