Book Description
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 : 33,8 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 : 42,1 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 : 20,58 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 : 29,28 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 : 47,67 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 : Robert Faggen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 2001-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521634946
A collection of specially-commissioned essays, enabling readers to explore Frost's art and thought.
Author : Geraldine Higgins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 34,64 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 : 11,94 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 : Roy Foster
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 18,15 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691211477
A vivid and original account of one of Ireland’s greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time when nationality was deeply contested, Heaney also won international acclaim, culminating in the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. In On Seamus Heaney, leading Irish historian and literary critic R. F. Foster gives an incisive and eloquent account of the poet and his work against the background of a changing Ireland. Drawing on unpublished drafts and correspondence, Foster provides illuminating and personal interpretations of Heaney’s work. Though a deeply charismatic figure, Heaney refused to don the mantle of public spokesperson, and Foster identifies a deliberate evasiveness and creative ambiguity in his poetry. In this, and in Heaney’s evocation of a disappearing rural Ireland haunted by political violence, Foster finds parallels with the other towering figure of Irish poetry, W. B. Yeats. Foster also discusses Heaney’s cosmopolitanism, his support for dissident poets abroad, and his increasing focus in his later work on death and spiritual transcendence. Above all, Foster examines how Heaney created an extraordinary connection with an exceptionally wide readership, giving him an authority and power unique among contemporary writers. Combining a vivid account of Heaney’s life and a compelling reading of his entire oeuvre, On Seamus Heaney extends our understanding of the man as it enriches our appreciation of his poetry.
Author : Victoria Aarons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 35,25 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107108934
This book demonstrates the complexity of Bellow's work by emphasizing the ways in which it reflects the changing conditions of American identity.