Heaney and Sheers Critics

Potts

‘Sheers maps the emotional terrain of loss and longing onto the physical contours of the Welsh landscape, creating a poetics of place deeply tied to identity’

Haffenden

Although the ostensible subject of the 'Strand at Lough Beg' is elegy, the poem… is just as much a song or eulogy addressed to a sacral landscape’

Longley

‘In Heaney’s poetry, the landscape becomes a sounding board for moral and emotional disquiet; the pastoral is rarely innocent’

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