The Government of the Tongue: The 1986 T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures
    
    
    The title, 
The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and is meant to raise an old question about the rights and status of poetic utterance itself. Should it be governed? Should it be the governor?
Seamus Heaney here scrutinizes the work of several poets, British and Irish, American and European, whose work is responsive to such strains and tensions. 
    
Faber & Faber 1988
    Translated into: Italian
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