"The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances"The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances brings together sixteen of the most prominent scholars who have written on Seamus Heaney to examine the Nobel Prize winners later poetry from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives. While a great deal of attention has been devoted to Heaneys early and middle poemsthe Bog Poems in particularthis book focuses on the poetry collected in Heaney's Seeing Things (1991), The Spirit Level (1996), Electric Light