| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 239 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge collections online |
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Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge collections online
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Cambridge companions to literature
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| Contents |
Introduction / Bernard O'Donoghue -- Seamus Heaney's working titles : from 'Advancements of learning' to 'Midnight anvil' / Rand Brandes -- The context of Heaney's reception / Patrick Crotty -- Heaney in public / Dennis O'Driscoll -- Heaney and the feminine / Fran Brearton -- Heaney and Eastern Europe / Justin Quinn -- Heaney's classics and the bucolic / Bernard O'Donoghue -- Professing poetry : Heaney as critic / David Wheatley -- Heaney and the Irish poetic tradition / Andrew Murphy -- Irish influence and confluence in Heaney's poetry / Dillon Johnston -- Heaney and Yeats / Neil Corcoran -- Heaney's Wordsworth and the poetics of displacement / Guinn Beatten -- Heaney, Beowulf, and the medieval literature of the North / Heather O'Donoghue -- Crediting marvels : Heaney after 50 / John Wilson Foster |
| Summary |
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 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-228) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013. fast (OCoLC)fst01898190 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
O'Donoghue, Bernard
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Cambridge University Press
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| LC no. |
2008040775 |
| ISBN |
0521547555 (pbk.) |
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0521838827 (hbk.) |
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1139002325 |
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9780521547550 (pbk.) |
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9780521838825 (hbk.) |
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9781139002325 |
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