Richard Rankin Russell

Seamus Heaney (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

The first detailed introduction to the entirety of Seamus Heaney's work This study will enable readers to gain clearer understanding of the life and major works of Seamus Heaney. It considers literary influences on Heaney, ranging from English poets such as Wordsworth, Hughes, and Auden to Irish poets such as Kavanagh and Yeats to world poets such as Virgil and Dante. It shows how Heaney was closely attuned to poetry's impact on daily life and current events even as he articulated a convincing apologia for poetry's own life and integrity. Discussing Heaney's deep immersion in Irish Catholicism, this book demonstrates how faith influenced his belief system, poetry and politics. Finally, it also considers how deeply Heaney's artistic endeavours were intertwined with politics in Northern Ireland, especially through his embrace of constitutional nationalism but rejection of physical force republicanism.Key FeaturesIncludes sections on biography, historical, cultural and political contexts, poetry and other genres, as well as a concluding section on primary works and secondary criticismPays special attention to the marriage of form and content in the poetry and how they work together to express subtle shades of meaningOffers close readings of Heaney's canonical poems throughout his career, including the early seminal poems such as Digging, the 'bog poems', and his many elegies, such as Casualty, Station Island, and ClearancesDraws on drafts of the poems and prose at the Heaney archives at Emory University and the National Library of Ireland

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474401685
• Artikelnr.: 50402483

Autorenporträt

Richard Rankin Russell is Professor of English at Baylor University. He is the author of Seamus Heaney's Regions (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama (Syracuse University Press, 2013), Peter Fallon: Poet, Publisher, Editor, and Translator (Irish Academic Press, 2013), Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010) and Bernard MacLaverty (Bucknell University Press, 2009), as well as the editor of Martin McDonagh: A Casebook (Routedge, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Life and Contexts; 2. Burrowing and Bogs: Early Poems
Death of a Naturalist
Door into the Dark
Wintering Out
North; 3. Reading the Ground and the Sky: Field Work
Station Island
The Haw Lantern; 4. Radiance: Seeing Things
The Spirit Level
Electric Light (1991-2001); 5. Return: District and Circle
Human Chain
and Late Uncollected Poetry (2006-2013); 6. Heaney's Prose
Drama
and Translations; Bibliography; Works Cited.