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Seamus Heaney and the Classics

Stephen Harrison,Fiona Macintosh,Helen Eastman
Seamus Heaney and the Classics Book PDF

Author : Stephen Harrison,Fiona Macintosh,Helen Eastman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198805656

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Seamus Heaney and the Classics by Stephen Harrison,Fiona Macintosh,Helen Eastman Pdf

Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeared in the past, this volume is the first to be wholly dedicated to this perspective on his work. Comprising literary criticism by scholars of both classical reception and contemporary literature in English, it includes contributions from critics who are also poets, as well as from theatre practitioners on their interpretations and productions of Heaney's versions of Greek drama; well-known names are joined by early-career contributors, and friends and collaborators of Heaney sit alongside those who admired him from afar. The papers focus on two main areas: Heaney's fascination with Greek drama and myth - shown primarily in his two Sophoclean versions, but also in his engagement in other poems with Hesiod, with Aeschylus' Agamemnon, and with myths such as that of Antaeus - and his interest in Latin poetry, primarily that of Virgil but also that of Horace; a version of an Horatian ode was famously the vehicle for Heaney's comment on the events of 11 September 2001 in 'Anything Can Happen' (District and Circle, 2006). Although a number of the contributions cover similar material, they do so from distinctively different angles: for example, Heaney's interest in Virgil is linked with the traditions of Irish poetry, his capacity as a translator, and his annotations in his own text of a standard translation, as well as being investigated in its long development over his poetic career, while his Greek dramas are considered as verbal poetry, as comments on Irish politics, and as stage-plays with concomitant issues of production and interpretation. Heaney's posthumous translation of Virgil's Aeneid VI (2016) comes in for considerable attention, and this will be the first volume to study this major work from several angles.

The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

Bernard O'Donoghue
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney Book PDF

Author : Bernard O'Donoghue
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521838825

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The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney by Bernard O'Donoghue Pdf

An up-to-date overview of Heaney's career thus far, with detailed readings of all his major publications.

Station Island

Seamus Heaney
Station Island Book PDF

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571262762

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Station Island by Seamus Heaney Pdf

The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded by a section of shorter lyrics and leads into a third group of poems in which the poet's voice is at one with the voice of the legendary mad King Sweeney. 'Surpasses even what one might reasonably expect from this magnificently gifted poet.' John Carey, Sunday Times

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 : 45,7 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.

Field Work

Seamus Heaney
Field Work Book PDF

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571262755

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Field Work by Seamus Heaney Pdf

At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes apparent elsewhere in the book: the individual's responsibility for his own choices, the artist's commitment to his vocation, the vulnerability of all in the face of circumstance and death.'Throughout the volume Heaney's outstanding gifts, his eye, his ear, his understanding of the poetic language are on display - this is a book we cannot do without.' Martin Dodsworth, Guardian

Classical Presences in Irish Poetry after 1960

Florence Impens
Classical Presences in Irish Poetry after 1960 Book PDF

Author : Florence Impens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319682310

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Classical Presences in Irish Poetry after 1960 by Florence Impens Pdf

This book provides the first overview of classical presences in Anglophone Irish poetry after 1960. Featuring detailed studies of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, and Eavan Boland, including close readings of key poems, it highlights the evolution of Irish poetic engagements with Greece and Rome in the last sixty years. It outlines the contours of a ‘movement’ which has transformed Irish poetry and accompanied its transition from a postcolonial to a transnational model, from sporadic borrowings of images and myths in the poets’ early attempts to define their own voices, to the multiplication of classical adaptations since the late 1980s -- at first at a time of personal and political crises, notably in Northern Ireland, and more recently, as manifestations of the poets’ engagements with European and other foreign literatures.

Human Chain

Seamus Heaney
Human Chain Book PDF

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,5 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.

100 Poems

Seamus Heaney
100 Poems Book PDF

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 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.

Aeneid Book VI

Seamus Heaney
Aeneid Book VI Book PDF

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571327348

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Aeneid Book VI by Seamus Heaney Pdf

In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, Heaney acknowledged the importance of the poem to his writing, noting that 'there's one Virgilian journey that has indeed been a constant presence, and that is Aeneas's venture into the underworld. The motifs in Book VI have been in my head for years - the golden bough, Charon's barge, the quest to meet the shade of the father.' In this new translation, Heaney employs the same deft handling of the original combined with the immediacy of language and flawless poetic voice as was on show in his translation of Beowulf, a reimagining which, in the words of Bernard O'Donoghue, brought the ancient poem back to life in 'a miraculous mix of the poem's original spirit and Heaney's voice'.

District and Circle

Seamus Heaney
District and Circle Book PDF

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,5 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.

Living Classics

S. J. Harrison
Living Classics Book PDF

Author : S. J. Harrison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191571138

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Living Classics by S. J. Harrison Pdf

This collection of essays explores the extensive use of Latin and Greek literary texts in a range of recent poetry written in English. It contains both contributions from poets, who include Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley, talking about their uses of classical literature in their own work in lyric poetry and in theatre poetry, and essays from academic experts on the same topics. Living Classics asks why contemporary poets are returning to making versions of and allusions to Greek and Roman literature in their work, and interrogates the parallel interest of modern classical scholars in the contemporary reception of classical texts.

Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism

Gregory Baker
Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism Book PDF

Author : Gregory Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108844864

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Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism by Gregory Baker Pdf

Analyzes the complex role receptions of antiquity had in forging nationalist ideology and literary modernism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Tony Harrison and the Classics

Sandie Byrne
Tony Harrison and the Classics Book PDF

Author : Sandie Byrne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192605252

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Tony Harrison and the Classics by Sandie Byrne Pdf

Tony Harrison and the Classics comprises fifteen chapters examining the lasting importance of Tony Harrison's classical education, the extent of the influence of Greek and Roman texts on his subjects, themes, and styles, his contribution to knowledge and understanding of classical literature, his popularization of classical works, and his innovative treatment of classical drama in plays which have been performed globally. Harrison's work fosters debates about the role and perception of the classics and adaptations of classical literature in relation to education, 'high' and 'popular' culture, accessibility, and reception. A unifying theme of the collection is the way in which Harrison finds in classical literature fruitful matter for the articulation and dramatization of his longstanding preoccupations: language, class, access to art, and the causes and effects of war. Through his adaptations and translations, Harrison uses classical drama to stage interventions in modern politics, but neither idealizes nor romanticizes the ancient world, depicting inequality, bigotry, greed, and brutality.

If

Christopher Benfey
If Book PDF

Author : Christopher Benfey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735221444

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If by Christopher Benfey Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literature At the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire literary world. At the height of his fame in 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming its youngest winner. His influence on major figures—including Freud and William James—was pervasive and profound. But in recent decades Kipling’s reputation has suffered a strange eclipse. Though his body of work still looms large, and his monumental poem “If—” is quoted and referenced by politicians, athletes, and ordinary readers alike, his unabashed imperialist views have come under increased scrutiny. In If, scholar Christopher Benfey brings this fascinating and complex writer to life and, for the first time, gives full attention to Kipling's intense engagement with the United States—a rarely discussed but critical piece of evidence in our understanding of this man and his enduring legacy. Benfey traces the writer’s deep involvement with America over one crucial decade, from 1889 to 1899, when he lived for four years in Brattleboro, Vermont, and sought deliberately to turn himself into a specifically American writer. It was his most prodigious and creative period, as well as his happiest, during which he wrote The Jungle Book and Captains Courageous. Had a family dispute not forced his departure, Kipling almost certainly would have stayed. Leaving was the hardest thing he ever had to do, Kipling said. “There are only two places in the world where I want to live,” he lamented, “Bombay and Brattleboro. And I can’t live in either.” In this fresh examination of Kipling, Benfey hangs a provocative “what if” over Kipling’s American years and maps the imprint Kipling left on his adopted country as well as the imprint the country left on him. If proves there is relevance and magnificence to be found in Kipling’s work.

Haunted Heaney

Ian Hickey
Haunted Heaney Book PDF

Author : Ian Hickey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000416817

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Haunted Heaney by Ian Hickey Pdf

Haunted Heaney: Spectres and the Poetry looks at the ghosts and spectres present within the poetry of the Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney. Covering Heaney’s work from his first collection, Death of a Naturalist, to his final collection, Human Chain, this volume analyses Heaney’s poetry through the lens of hauntology as presented by Jacques Derrida in Specters of Marx. This book presents spectres and ghosts not in the conventional sense, as purely supernatural, physical manifestations haunting a place, but instead as having a non-physical presence. In this sense past cultures, societies, texts, poets, and memories are examined as having a spectral influence on Heaney’s writing. His work is indebted to hauntedness as the past in all its forms sutures itself within the present of his thinking and writing, and our reading of the poetry. Topics for discussion include the Norse spectres in the early poetry; British colonialism and its haunting influence on the poet; a renewed look at the bog poems as being influenced by the spectral; the classical influence of Virgil and Dante; and a reading of ‘Route 110’ that incorporates the major instances of Heaney’s career into a singular poem. The book also incorporates Heaney’s prose work and interviews into the discussion and uses these works as a metacommentary to the poetry offering a deeper insight into the mind of one of Ireland’s greatest writers.