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Past Poetic: Archaeology and the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney Hardcover – April 20, 2004

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This book considers the way two Anglo-Irish poets, W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, have used archaeology in their work, and how it surfaced in their lives. As well as providing new insights on Yeats and Heaney, their poetry and its analysis provides a filter for an original reading of the history of archaeology as it emerged from the mid-nineteenth century. Christine Finn draws on an array of data, tracing the path of the poets through museums, their childhood landscapes, and archaeological sites in Ireland, Italy and Scandinavia.
Past Poetic reveals the ways in which these two great poets received the past, as images in books and photographs, and as tangible objects.

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Christine Finn is a journalist, and a research associate at the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford University, where she wrote her doctorate on Yeats, Heaney and archaeology. She is the author of Artifacts: an archaeologist's year in Silicon Valley (MIT Press, 2001) and many articles on archaeology and the arts. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, she is now writing a biography of Jacquetta Hawkes. She lectures widely, and is a contributing editor to Archaeology magazine, and a former Reuter Journalist Fellow at Oxford.

Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers (April 20, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 071563237X
ISBN-13: 978-0715632376
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Average Customer Review: 1 customer review
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,416,145 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #9413 in Poetry Literary Criticism (Books)
- #55657 in Literary Criticism & Theory
- #8426 in British & Irish Poetry

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Fascinating for Literature Students and Archaeologists

July 4, 2004

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This stunning, ground-breaking, punctiliously researched book considers the influence of archaeology on the work of two Irish poets to whom it was/is very important -- W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney. The section on Yeats includes fascinating details of the history of archaeology, particularly how the Greek and Roman discoveries which so captured Yeats's imagination came to be in the museums where he viewed them. Heaney is drawn not so much to classical antiquity as to the (more recent) discoveries of Bog Bodies in Ireland and Denmark (and the exact reason for the deposit of bog bodies is currently a hot topic in archaeology). "Past Poetic" is an extraordinary attempt to analyse the workings of the poetic mind. Highly recommended.

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