Author : Bernard O'Donoghue
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521838827
An up-to-date overview of Heaney's career thus far, with detailed readings of all his major publications.
Author : Bernard O'Donoghue
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827308
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 overview of his career and of his reception in Ireland, England and around the world. Its distinguished contributors offer detailed readings of his major publications, in poetry, prose and translation. The essays further explore the central themes of his poetry, his relations with other writers, and his prose writing. Designed for students, this volume will also have much to interest and inform the general reader and admirer of Heaney's unique poetic voice.
Author : Matthew Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 24,30 MB
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113982676X
In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and history, country and city. This book, first published in 2003, provides an introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, and also introduces the reader to significant precursors like Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, and vital contemporaries and successors: among others, Thomas Kinsella, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Paul Muldoon. Readers will find discussions of Irish poetry from the traditional to the modernist, written in Irish as well as English, from both North and South. This Companion provides cultural and historical background to contemporary Irish poetry in the contexts of modern Ireland but also in the broad currents of modern world literature. It includes a chronology and guide to further reading and will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.
Author : Gerald Dawe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108420354
A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.
Author : Marjorie Elizabeth Howes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521650895
A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major themes of this important poet's life and career.
Author : Joe Cleary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,8 MB
Release : 2005-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521526296
This Companion provides an authoritative introduction to the historical, social and stylistic complexities of modern Irish culture. It introduces Irish culture in its broadest sense and guides the reader through the cultural and theoretical debates that inform our understanding of modern Ireland. The range of topics covered by the contributors demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of Irish culture and the development of modern Ireland.
Author : Geraldine Higgins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316850528
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.
Author : Dennis O'Driscoll
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2008-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374269831
Chronicles the life of twentieth-century Irish poet Seamus Heaney, from his infancy to his Nobel Prize in 1995, and also discusses his post-Nobel life, family, writings, and other related topics.
Author : Matthew Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 31,5 MB
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521012454
In the last fifty years Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature, writing about love and sexuality, violence and history, country and city. This book provides a unique introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, but also introduces the reader to significant precursors like Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, and vital contemporaries and successors: among others, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. Readers will find discussions of Irish poetry from the traditional to the modernist, written in Irish as well as English, from both North and South. This Companion, the only book of its kind on the market, provides cultural and historical background to contemporary Irish poetry in the contexts of modern Ireland but also in the broad currents of modern world literature. It includes a chronology and guide to further reading and will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.
Author : Daniel Tobin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081314762X
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.
