Seamus Heaney

Name: Seamus Heaney
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ISBN: 9780521547550

ISBN-10: 0521547555

ISBN-13: 9780521547550

Edition: 2008

Authors: Bernard O'Donoghue

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Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists for decades. Since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, he has come to be considered one of the most important English language poets in the world. This Companion gives an up-to-date overview of his career thus far, and of his reception in Ireland, England and around the world. Its distinguished contributors offer detailed readings of all his major publications, in poetry, prose and translation. The essays further explore the central…

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List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/18/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




Introduction Bernard O'Donoghue



Heaney's working titles: from Advancement of Learning to Midnight Anvil Rand Brandes



The context of Heaney's reception




Heaney in public




Heaney and the feminine




Heaney and Eastern Europe




Heaney's classics and the bucolic




Professing poetry: Heaney as critic




Heaney and the Irish Poetic Tradition




Irish influence and confluence in Heaney's poetry




Heaney and Yeats




Heaney's Wordsworth and the poetics of displacement




Heaney, Beowulf, and the medieval literature of the north Heather O'Donoghue



Crediting marvels: Heaney after 50



Guide to further reading


Index