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Seamus Heaney and American Poetry

Christopher Laverty
Seamus Heaney and American Poetry Book PDF

Author : Christopher Laverty
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030955687

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Seamus Heaney and American Poetry by Christopher Laverty Pdf

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.

Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey

Edward J. O’Shea
Seamus Heaney s American Odyssey Book PDF

Author : Edward J. O’Shea
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000816648

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Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey by Edward J. O’Shea Pdf

Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey describes, with a new archive of correspondence, interviews, and working drafts, the some 40 years that Seamus Heaney spent in the United States as a teacher, lecturer, friend, and colleague, and as an active poet on the reading circuit. It is anchored by Heaney’s appointments at Berkeley and Harvard, but it also follows Heaney’s readings “on the road” at three important points in his career. It argues that Heaney was initially receptive to American poetry and culture while his career was still plastic, but as he developed more assurance and fame, he became much more critical of America as a superpower, especially in the military reaction to 9/11. This study emphasizes “the heard Heaney” as much as the “writerly Heaney” by listening in on key poetry readings at different times and to recorded but unpublished lectures on American and British poets at Harvard. It includes accounts by his creative writing students, aspiring poets, who testify to his mentoring as well as modeling for them how one can be “a poet in the world” as he was most strikingly.

Passage to the Center

Daniel Tobin
Passage to the Center Book PDF

Author : Daniel Tobin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813147628

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Passage to the Center by Daniel Tobin Pdf

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, author of nine collections of poetry and three volumes of influential essays, is regarded by many as the greatest Irish poet since Yeats. Passage to the Center is the most comprehensive critical treatment to date on Heaney's poetry and the first to study Heaney's body of work up to Seeing Things and The Spirit Level. It is also the first to examine the poems from the perspective of religion, one of Heaney's guiding preoccupations. According to Tobin, the growth of Heaney's poetry may be charted through the recurrent figure of "the center," a key image in the relationship that evolved over time between the poet and his inherited place, an evolution that involved the continual re-evaluation and re-vision of imaginative boundaries. In a way that previous studies have not, Tobin's work examines Heaney's poetry in the context of modernist and postmodernist concerns about the desacralizing of civilization and provides a challenging engagement with the work of a living master.

Northern Irish Poetry

E. Kennedy-Andrews
Northern Irish Poetry Book PDF

Author : E. Kennedy-Andrews
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137330390

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Northern Irish Poetry by E. Kennedy-Andrews Pdf

Through discussion of the ways in which major Northern Irish poets (such as John Hewitt, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Louis MacNeice and Derek Mahon) have been influenced by America, this study shows how Northern Irish poetry overspills national borders, complicating and enriching itself through cross-cultural interaction and hybridity.

Passage to the Center

Daniel Tobin
Passage to the Center Book PDF

Author : Daniel Tobin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813183879

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Passage to the Center by Daniel Tobin Pdf

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, author of nine collections of poetry and three volumes of influential essays, is regarded by many as the greatest Irish poet since Yeats. Passage to the Center is the most comprehensive critical treatment to date on Heaney's poetry and the first to study Heaney's body of work up to Seeing Things and The Spirit Level. It is also the first to examine the poems from the perspective of religion, one of Heaney's guiding preoccupations. According to Tobin, the growth of Heaney's poetry may be charted through the recurrent figure of "the center," a key image in the relationship that evolved over time between the poet and his inherited place, an evolution that involved the continual re-evaluation and re-vision of imaginative boundaries. In a way that previous studies have not, Tobin's work examines Heaney's poetry in the context of modernist and postmodernist concerns about the desacralizing of civilization and provides a challenging engagement with the work of a living master.

Opened Ground

Seamus Heaney
Opened Ground Book PDF

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571262793

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Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney Pdf

This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to make it. It replaces his New Selected Poems 1966-1987, giving a fuller selection from each of the volumes represented there and adding large parts of those that have appeared since, together with examples of his work as a translator from the Greek, Latin, Italian and other languages. The book concludes with 'Crediting Poetry', the speech with which Seamus Heaney accepted the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to him, in the words of the Swedish Academy of Letters, for his 'works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth'.

Human Chain

Seamus Heaney
Human Chain Book PDF

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780571269631

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Human Chain by Seamus Heaney Pdf

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, as lifelines to the inherited past. There are newly minted versions of anonymous early Irish lyrics, poems which stand at the crossroads of oral and written, and other 'hermit songs' which weigh equally in their balance the craft of scribe and the poet's early calling as scholar. A remarkable sequence entitled 'Route 110' plots the descent into the underworld in the Aeneid against single moments in the arc of a life, from a 1950s adolescence to the birth of the poet's first grandchild. Other poems display a Virgilian pietas for the dead - friends, neighbours and family - which is yet wholly and movingly vernacular. Human Chain also adapts a poetic 'herbal' by the Breton poet Guillevic - lyrics as delicate as ferns, which puzzle briefly over the world of things which excludes human speech, while affirming the interconnectedness of phenomena, as of a self-sufficiency in which we too are included. Human Chain is Seamus Heaney's twelfth collection of poems.

Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of Poetry

Rachel Falconer
Seamus Heaney Virgil and the Good of Poetry Book PDF

Author : Rachel Falconer
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474454402

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Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of Poetry by Rachel Falconer Pdf

The first book-length study of Heaney's dialogue with Virgil, one of Seamus Heaney's major literary exemplars.

Professing Poetry

Michael Cavanagh
Professing Poetry Book PDF

Author : Michael Cavanagh
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813216713

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Professing Poetry by Michael Cavanagh Pdf

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 and the Emblems of Hope

Karen Marguerite Moloney
Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of Hope Book PDF

Author : Karen Marguerite Moloney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015068813289

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Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of Hope by Karen Marguerite Moloney Pdf

"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.

Seamus Heaney (Text Only)

Helen Vendler
Seamus Heaney Text Only Book PDF

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007400133

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Seamus Heaney (Text Only) by Helen Vendler Pdf

A dazzling short assessment of the life and work of the poet and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature.

District and Circle

Seamus Heaney
District and Circle Book PDF

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571250745

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District and Circle by Seamus Heaney Pdf

Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twentieth-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II - railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the 'heavyweight silence' of cattle out in rain - are coloured by a strongly contemporary sense that 'anything can happen' and other images from the dangerous present - a journey on the underground, a melting glacier - are fraught with this same anxiety. But District and Circle, which includes a number of prose poems and translations, offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. In a sequence like 'The Tollund Man in Springtime' and in several poems which 'do the rounds of the district' - its known roads and rivers and trees, its familiar and unfamiliar ghosts - the gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection. With more relish and conviction than ever, Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals.

"The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances"

Eugene O'Brien
The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances Book PDF

Author : Eugene O'Brien
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780268100230

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"The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances" by Eugene O'Brien Pdf

The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances brings together sixteen of the most prominent scholars who have written on Seamus Heaney to examine the Nobel Prize winner’s later poetry from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives. While a great deal of attention has been devoted to Heaney’s early and middle poems—the Bog Poems in particular—this book focuses on the poetry collected in Heaney's Seeing Things (1991), The Spirit Level (1996), Electric Light (2001), District and Circle (2006), and Human Chain (2010) as a thematically connected set of writings. The starting point of the essays in this collection is that these later poems can be grouped in terms of style, theme, approach, and intertextuality. They develop themes that were apparent in Heaney’s earlier work, but they also break with these themes and address issues that are radically different from those of the earlier collections. The essays are divided into five sections, focusing on ideas of death, the later style, translation and transnational poetics, luminous things and gifts, and usual and unusual spaces. A number of the contributors see Heaney as stressing the literary over the actual and as always looking at the interstices and positions of liminality and complexity. His use of literary references in his later poetry exemplifies his search for literary avatars against whom he can test his own ideas and with whom he can enter into an aesthetic and ethical dialogue. The essayists cover a great deal of Heaney’s debts to classical and modern literature—in the original languages and in translations—and demonstrate the degree to which the streets on which Heaney walked and wrote were two-way: he was influenced by Virgil, Petrarch, Milosz, Wordsworth, Keats, Rilke, and others and, in turn, had an impact on contemporary poets. This remarkable collection will appeal to scholars and literary critics, undergraduates as well as graduate students, and to the many general readers of Heaney's poetry.

100 Poems

Seamus Heaney
100 Poems Book PDF

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571347179

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100 Poems by Seamus Heaney Pdf

In 2013, Seamus Heaney met with Faber poetry editor Matthew Hollis in Dublin. He said that one project he would very much like to complete would be to prepare a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to make the selection in his lifetime, and after his passing, the project was initially set aside. But now, at last, it has been returned to once more, and the result is an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. Coinciding with the opening by the National Library of Ireland of a permanent exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Seamus Heaney, this is a singular, accessible selection for new and younger readers that has the opportunity to reach far and wide, now and ahead.

The Cure at Troy

Seamus Heaney
The Cure at Troy Book PDF

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780571346196

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The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney Pdf

Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles's Philoctetes tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to realise they cannot win the Trojan war without Philoctetes's invincible bow, and turn back to seek his help. The Cure at Troy dramatises the conflict between personal integrity and political expediency, and explores ways in which the victims of injustice can become as devoted to the contemplation of their wounds as the perpetrators are to the justification of their system. Responsive to the Greek playwright's understanding of the relations between public and private morality, The Cure at Troy is a sharp, fast-paced retelling of the Greek original, shot through with Heaney's own Irish speech and context. History says, Don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.