Human Nature in the Bible is a look at the Bible from a different perspective than based simply on dogma or religion. It was written by noted critic and scholar William Phelps.

In his volume of critical essays The Government of the Tongue, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness, and we are reminded, above all, of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself.