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Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry

Author : John Dennison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191059714
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry written by John Dennison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seamus Heaney's prose poetics return repeatedly to the adequacy of poetry, its ameliorative, restorative response to the violence of public historical life. It is a curiously equivocal ideal, and as such most clearly demonstrates the intellectual origins, the humanist character, and the inherent strains of these poetics, the work of one of the world's leading poet-critics of the last thirty years. Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry is the first study of the development of Heaney's thought and its central theme. Eschewing the tendency of Heaney critics to endorse or expand on the poet's poetics in largely adulatory terms, it draws on archival as well as print sources to trace the emerging dualistic shape, redemptive logic, and post-Christian nature of Heaney's thought, from his undergraduate formation to the expansive affirmations of his late cultural poetics. Through a meticulous and wholly new examination of Heaney's revisions to previously published prose, it reveals the logical strain of his conceptual constructions, so that it becomes acutely apparent just how appropriate that ambivalent ideal 'adequacy' is. This book takes seriously the post-Christian, frequently religious tenor of Heaney's language, explicating the character of his thought while exposing its limits: Heaney's belief in poetry's adequacy ultimately constitutes an Arnoldian substitute for—indeed, an 'afterimage' of—Christian belief. This is the deep significance of the idea of adequacy to Heaney's thought: it allows us to identify precisely the late humanist character and the limits of his troubled trust in poetry.

The Redress of Poetry

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466855770
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Redress of Poetry written by Seamus Heaney and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaney's ten lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford, collected here in The Redress of Poetry, explore the poetry of a wide range of writers, from Christopher Marlowe to John Clare to Oscar Wilde. Whether he concentrates on moments in the works under discussion, or is concerned to advance his general subject, Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of poetic order.

Seamus Heaney and American Poetry

Author : Christopher Laverty
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030955680
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Seamus Heaney and American Poetry written by Christopher Laverty and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the influence of American poetry on Seamus Heaney’s achievement by close attention to the themes, style, and resonances of his poetry at different stages of his career, including his appointments in Berkeley and Harvard. Beginning with an examination of Heaney’s education at Queen’s University, this study presents comparative close readings which explore the influence of five American poets he read during this period: Robert Frost, John Crowe Ransom, Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell, and Elizabeth Bishop. Laverty demonstrates how Heaney returned to several of these poets in response to difficulty and to consolidate later aesthetic developments. Heaney’s ambivalent critical treatment of Sylvia Plath is investigated, as is his partial misreading of Bishop, who is understood today more sensitively than in her lifetime. This study also probes the reasons for his elision of other prominent American writers, making this the first comprehensive assessment of American influence on Heaney’s poetry.

Human Chain

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466855673
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Human Chain written by Seamus Heaney and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011 Winner of the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize Winner of the 2011 Poetry Now Award Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present—the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. Human Chain also broaches larger questions of transmission, of lifelines to the inherited past. There are newly minted versions of anonymous early Irish lyrics, poems that stand at the crossroads of oral and written, and other "hermit songs" that weigh equally in their balance the craft of scribe and the poet's early calling as scholar. A remarkable sequence entitled "Route 101" plots the descent into the underworld in the Aeneid against single moments in the arc of a life, from a 1950s childhood to the birth of a first grandchild. Other poems display a Virgilian pietas for the dead—friends, neighbors, family—that is yet wholly and movingly vernacular. Human Chain also includes a poetic "herbal" adapted from the Breton poet Guillevic—lyrics as delicate as ferns, which puzzle briefly over the world of things and landscapes that exclude human speech, while affirming the interconnectedness of phenomena, as of a self-sufficiency in which we too are included.

Seamus Heaney and the Language Of Poetry

Author : Bernard O'Donoghue
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315504871
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Seamus Heaney and the Language Of Poetry written by Bernard O'Donoghue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book scrutinizes Heaney's language in order to examine his theory of poetry and the writer's responsibility to art and politics. The author, himself a poet, works chronologically through the poetry and discusses it in light of Heaney's writings on the appropriate language of poetry. Chapters also look at Heaney's language and at the government of the tongue.

Professing Poetry

Author : Michael Cavanagh
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813216710
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Professing Poetry written by Michael Cavanagh and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of Heaney's poetics, Professing Poetry explores Heaney's unusual concept of influence and the various ways in which Heaney interacts with other writers

Seamus Heaney

Author : Henry Hart
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815626121
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Seamus Heaney written by Henry Hart and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seamus Heaney, widely considered the most gifted living poet in Ireland and Britain, is the first Irish poet since Yeats to gain an international reputation. In this remarkable study, henry Hart discusses Heaney's poems, his creative and personal situations, and his assimilation of contemporary literary theory. From Heaney's Ulster background to poetic influences as diverse as Dante and Wordsworth, Yeats and Bly, Hart offers sophisticated, lucid insights. Hart argues that the best way into Heaney's poetic world is in seeking to understand him—as with Blake and Yeats—in terms of oppositions and conflicts, progressions and syntheses. At the root of all his work is a multifaceted argument with himself, with others, with sectarian Northern Ireland, with his Anglo-Irish heritage, with his Roman Catholicism, and with his Nationalist upbringing on a farm in County Derry. For each volume of poems, from Door into the Dark to The Haw Lantern, Hart identifies and works with a specific problem in the text, while developing its intellectual and creative implications. He covers aspects as diverse as Heaney's incorporation of antipastoral attitudes in his poems, his fascination with how etymology recapitulates ancient and modern history, and apocalypticism in North. Placing his trust in art's ability to confront conflicts between freedom and responsibility, between private craft and public involvement, Heaney is shown nonetheless to chastise himself for failing to have a greater impact on the situation he left behind in Northern Ireland. In pursuing the literary, religious, and political themes in his books of poetry, Hart shows that Heaney is no provincial bard, as some critics have suggested, but is as intellectually informed and astute as any postmodernist writer. Any reader of Seamus Heaney's poetry, and any poet, poetry scholar, critic of contemporary poetry, or student of Irish literature will gain much from reading this book.

Poetry Of Seamus Heaney

Author : Elmer Andrews
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349193372
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Poetry Of Seamus Heaney written by Elmer Andrews and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-07-26 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seamus Heaney

Author : Michael Parker
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877453987
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Seamus Heaney written by Michael Parker and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nearly thirty years of his writing career the Irish poet Seamus Heaney has established himself as an enduring world writer. This book provides the fullest account yet of his early life as an Ulster Catholic and the experiences, influences, and relationships - personal, literary, and political - that shaped his poetic development and awareness in the midst of the complex and violent history that has formed modern Ireland. Michael Parker's extensive research includes a considerable amount of original material, such as photographs and interviews with Heaney and with many key personalities from his past and present. Parker presents fresh insights into the background and possible sources of Heaney's poems, commentaries on unpublished poems and drafts, and careful readings of each of the poet's collections up to and including the 1991 Seeing Things.

Crediting Poetry

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374131384
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Crediting Poetry written by Seamus Heaney and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-06-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaney, a professor of poetry at Oxford and Harvard, calls poetry "the ship and the anchor" of our spirit.

Seamus Heaney and Society

Author : Rosie Lavan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192555820
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Seamus Heaney and Society written by Rosie Lavan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his career in poetry, Seamus Heaney maintained roles in education and was a visible presence in the print and broadcast media. Seamus Heaney and Society presents a dynamic new engagement with one of the most celebrated poets of the modern period, examining the ways in which his work as a poet was shaped by his work as a teacher, lecturer, critic, and public figure. Drawing on a range of archival material, this book revives the varied contexts within which Heaney's work was written, published, and circulated. Mindful of the different spheres which surrounded his pursuit of poetry, it assesses his achievements and status in Ireland, Britain, and the United States through close analysis of his work in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, and manuscript drafts of key writings now held in the National Library of Ireland. Asserting the significance of the cultural, institutional, and historical worlds in which Heaney wrote and was read, Seamus Heaney and Society offers a timely reconstruction of the social lives of his work, while also exploring the ways in which he questioned and sustained the privacy and singularity of poetry. Ultimately, it considers how the enduring legacy of a great poet emerges from the working life of a contemporary writer.

Seamus Heaney in Context

Author : Geraldine Higgins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316850528
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Seamus Heaney in Context written by Geraldine Higgins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few poets have captured the imagination of the world like Seamus Heaney. Recognized as one of the truly outstanding poets of our time, Heaney's work is both critically acclaimed and popular with the general reader. It is taught in classrooms across the globe and has been translated into more than twenty-seven languages. Presenting original research from an international field of scholars, Seamus Heaney in Context offers new pathways to explore the places, times and influences that made Heaney a poet. Drawing on newly available archival and print sources, these essays situate Heaney in a multitude of contexts that help readers navigate received ideas about his life and work. In mapping intersecting themes in the current terrain of Heaney criticism, this study also signposts new directions for understanding Heaney's poetry in future contexts.

Seamus Heaney

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674002050
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Seamus Heaney written by Helen Vendler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. Poet and critic are well met, as one of our best writers on poetry takes up one of the world's great poets. Where other books on the Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney have dwelt chiefly on the biographical, geographical, and political aspects of his writing, this book looks squarely and deeply at Heaney's poetry as art. A reading of the poet's development over the past thirty years, Seamus Heaney tells a story of poetic inventiveness, of ongoing experimentation in form and expression. It is an inspired and nuanced portrait of an Irish poet of public as well as private life, whose work has given voice to his troubled times. With characteristic discernment and eloquence, Helen Vendler traces Heaney's invention as it evolves from his beginnings in Death of a Naturalist (1966) through his most recent volume, The Spirit Level (1996). In sections entitled "Second Thoughts," she considers an often neglected but crucial part of Heaney's evolving talent: self-revision. Here we see how later poems return to the themes or genres of the earlier volumes, and reconceive them in light of the poet's later attitudes or techniques. Vendler surveys all of Heaney's efforts in the classical forms--genre scene, elegy, sonnet, parable, confessional poem, poem of perception--and brings to light his aesthetic and moral attitudes. Seamus Heaney's development as a poet is inextricably connected to the violent struggle that has racked Northern Ireland. Vendler shows how, from one volume to the next, Heaney has maintained vigilant attention toward finding a language for his time--"symbols adequate for our predicament," as he has said. The worldwide response to those discovered symbols suggests that their relevance extends far beyond this moment.

Seamus Heaney

Author : M. Parker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230390250
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Seamus Heaney written by M. Parker and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-10-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an account of Seamus Heaney's early life, and the experiences, influences and relationships - personal, literary and political - that shaped his poetic development. The book includes photographs, interviews and commentary on unpublished poems and drafts.

Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of Hope

Author : Karen Marguerite Moloney
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826265898
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of Hope written by Karen Marguerite Moloney and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores Seamus Heaney's adaptation of the Celtic ritual known as the Feis of Tara, demonstrates the sovereignty motif's continued relevance in works by Irish poets Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Eavan Boland, and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, and refutes criticism that charges sexism and overemphasizes sacrifice in Heaney's poetry"--Provided by publisher.

This Strange Loneliness

Author : Peter Mackay
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007526
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book This Strange Loneliness written by Peter Mackay and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Strange Loneliness is the first comprehensive account of the poetic relationship between Seamus Heaney and William Wordsworth. Peter Mackay explores how Heaney repeatedly turns to the Romantic poet's work for inspiration, corroboration, and amplification, and as a model for the fortifying power of poetry itself, which offers the fundamental lesson that "it is on this earth 'we find our happiness, or not at all.'" Through an in-depth look at archival materials, and at uncollected poems and prose by Heaney, Mackay traces the evolution of Heaney's readings of Wordsworth throughout his career, revealing their shared interest in the connections between poetry and education, the possibility of a beneficial understanding of poetic influence, the complexities of place and displacement, ideas of transcendence, and ultimately the importance of "late style": later poems by Wordsworth might prove a cautionary tale, as well as example, for any poet. Placing Heaney's readings within their political, historical, and poetic contexts the book also explores how he negotiated the complex relationship between Irish and British culture and identity to claim a persistent form of kinship, and forge a strange community, with the Romantic poet. With illuminating readings that reveal new contexts to and currents in Heaney's work, This Strange Loneliness is a powerful evocation of the Irish poet's sense of the "uplift" that poetry can provide.

The Translations of Seamus Heaney

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720096
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Translations of Seamus Heaney written by Seamus Heaney and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete translations of the poet Seamus Heaney, a Nobel laureate and prolific, revolutionary translator. Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf, published in 1999, was immediately hailed as an undisputed masterpiece, “something imperishable and great” (James Wood, The Guardian). A few years after his death in 2013, his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI caused a similar stir, providing “a remarkable and fitting epilogue to one of the great poetic careers of recent times” (Nick Laird, Harper’s Magazine). Now, for the first time, the poet, critic, and essayist’s translations are gathered in one volume. Heaney translated not only classic works of Latin and Old English but also a great number of poems from Spanish, Romanian, Dutch, Russian, German, Scottish Gaelic, Czech, Ancient and Modern Greek, Middle and Modern French, and Medieval and Modern Italian, among other languages. In particular, the Nobel laureate engaged with works in Old, Middle, and Modern Irish, the languages of his homeland and early education. As he said, “If you lived in the Irish countryside as I did in my childhood, you lived in a primal Gaeltacht.” In The Translations of Seamus Heaney, Marco Sonzogni has collected Heaney’s translations and framed them with the poet’s own writings on his works and their composition, sourced from introductions, interviews, and commentaries. Through this volume, we come closer to grasping the true extent of Heaney’s extraordinary abilities and his genius.