seamus heaney: a portrait in letters

Peter Raina is an historian and prolific author and commentator on some of the major figures and events in western European history and literature. His publications include a monumental six-volume History of the House of Lords Reform, and classic biographies: The Seventh Earl Beauchamp: A Victim of His Times; John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford; George «Dadie» Rylands: Shakespearean Scholar and Cambridge Legend; Doris Lessing - A Life Behind the Scenes; and Heinrich von Kleist: Poems.