The Makings of a Music: Reflections on The Poetry of Wordsworth and Yeats : The Kenneth Allott Lectures

In February 1978, Seamus Heaney delivered this Kenneth Allott Lecture to the general public. Through the poetry of Wordsworth an Yeats, Heaney explores the relationship between 'the almost physiological operations of a poet composing and the music of the finished poem'. [Publisher's text]