A vision of the people, history and landscape of Ireland in poetry. Through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, Heaney sets the violence of Ireland against folk memories of the Scandinavian and English invasions.
North
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"[Heaney's] awareness of a wider social world . . . reaches its culmination in North (1975), a deservedly famous volume that [Helen] Vendler regards as 'one of the crucial poetic interventions of the 20th century,' ranking with Eliot's Prufrock, Wallace Stevens' Harmonium, and Frost's North of Boston in 'its key role in the history of modern poetry.'" --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
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Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His most recent translations are Beowulf and Diary of One Who Vanished. His most recent collection of poems is Opened Ground.
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Mystic poems from the Celtic-Nordic Axis,
By John M "jpmcad" (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: North (Hardcover)
These poems connect the twenty first century reader with the Celtic past of Ireland, in a unique way: through the experience of the marauding Vikings. Wonderful poems with a mythic edge. Heaney is fantastic. Fans of Heaney's Beowulf translation will find a great introduction to his work here in this accessible group of poems.
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Great Poems,
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This review is from: North: [poems] (Hardcover)
I don't know much about poetry, but as a fan of Irish culture, I decided to pick up this small collection. I was moved by the images. Heaney brought the past alive. I could picture the Vikings coming up the Shannon and storming Clen McNois and other monastries. Definately recommended!
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