Elmer Kennedy-Andrews teaches at the University of Ulster at Coleraine. He is the editor of Seamus Heaney: A Collection of Critical Essays and Contemporary Irish Poetry: A Collection of Critical Essays.

Introduction
1. Contemporary Responses and Early Studies
2. Formalist and Postformalist Approaches
3. Historical Approaches
4. Psychoanalytical Approaches
5. Feminist Criticism
6. Reader-Response, Phenomenological and Poststructuralist Approaches
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index