In this collection of critical responses to Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney's poetry, Elmer Andrews presents the debates surrounding the poet's work and popular appeal. The writings gathered in this "Columbia Critical Guide" clarify and explore issues of cultural identity and nationality, as well as debates on the power of language and the function of verse. Beginning with Heaney's early collection, "Death of a Naturalist," the guide reviews and contextualizes material on successive volumes (including 1996's "The Spirit Level"), so that students of Heaney's verse will find an accessible pathway through the most important critical writings on this major poet.
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WE SHALL begin by considering some important and influential English and American reactions to Heaney's poetry as they appeared in contemporary reviews of individual collections of Heaney's poems and in retrospective assessments of his career as a whole. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
most sensuous poet, civilized outrage, bog poems, artful voyeur, betraying sisters, intimate revenge, witnessing eye, fifth province, door into the dark, assumptive world Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland, The Haw Lantern, Richard Kearney, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, Edna Longley, Northern Irish, Robert Lowell, Seamus Deane, Sweeney Astray, Helen Vendler, John Carey, Sunday Times, The Crane Bag, Heaney Phenomenon, Professor of English, The Government of the Tongue, Timothy Kearney, Blake Morrison, Buile Suibhne, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Derek Mahon, Irish Catholics, Lough Derg, East Coast New!
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WE SHALL begin by considering some important and influential English and American reactions to Heaney's poetry as they appeared in contemporary reviews of individual collections of Heaney's poems and in retrospective assessments of his career as a whole. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
most sensuous poet, civilized outrage, bog poems, artful voyeur, betraying sisters, intimate revenge, witnessing eye, fifth province, door into the dark, assumptive world Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Seamus Heaney, Northern Ireland, The Haw Lantern, Richard Kearney, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, Edna Longley, Northern Irish, Robert Lowell, Seamus Deane, Sweeney Astray, Helen Vendler, John Carey, Sunday Times, The Crane Bag, Heaney Phenomenon, Professor of English, The Government of the Tongue, Timothy Kearney, Blake Morrison, Buile Suibhne, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Derek Mahon, Irish Catholics, Lough Derg, East Coast New!
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- Station Island by Seamus Heaney on 33 pages
- Wintering Out by Seamus Heaney on 30 pages
- Field Work: Poems by Seamus Heaney on 28 pages
- Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney on 19 pages
- The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney on 16 pages
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- Seamus Heaney (New Casebooks) by Michael Allen on page 91, and page 204
- Castings: Monuments and Monumentality in Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Derek Walcott, and Seamus Heaney by Guy Rotella in Back Matter
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter by Elmer Kennedy-Andrews in Back Matter
- The Popular and the Canonical: Debating Twentieth-Century Literature 1940-2000 (Twentieth-Century Literature: Texts and Debates) by David Johnson on page 290
- William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying by Nicolas Tredell in Back Matter
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