The Redress of Poetry

The Redress of Poetry PDF Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466855770
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Heaney's ten lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford, collected here in The Redress of Poetry, explore the poetry of a wide range of writers, from Christopher Marlowe to John Clare to Oscar Wilde. Whether he concentrates on moments in the works under discussion, or is concerned to advance his general subject, Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of poetic order.

The Redress of Poetry

The Redress of Poetry PDF Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466855770
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Book Description
Heaney's ten lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford, collected here in The Redress of Poetry, explore the poetry of a wide range of writers, from Christopher Marlowe to John Clare to Oscar Wilde. Whether he concentrates on moments in the works under discussion, or is concerned to advance his general subject, Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of poetic order.

Literature in Ireland

Literature in Ireland PDF Author: Thomas MacDonagh
Publisher: Kennikat Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers PDF Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466864060
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world?" Along with a selection from the poet's three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, and The Redress of Poetry), the present volume includes Heaney's finest lectures and a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to radio commentaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets -- Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors and contemporaries -- Finders Keepers is, as its title indicates, "an announcement of both excitement and possession."

Station Island

Station Island PDF Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571262767
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded by a section of shorter lyrics and leads into a third group of poems in which the poet's voice is at one with the voice of the legendary mad King Sweeney. 'Surpasses even what one might reasonably expect from this magnificently gifted poet.' John Carey, Sunday Times

District and Circle

District and Circle PDF Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466855495
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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Seamus Heaney's new collection starts "In an age of bare hands and cast iron" and ends as "The automatic lock / clunks shut" in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II – railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the "heavyweight / Silence" of "Cattle out in rain" – are colored by a strongly contemporary sense that "Anything can happen," and other images from the dangerous present – a journey on the Underground, a melting glacier – are fraught with this same anxiety. But District and Circle, which includes a number of prose poems and translations, offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. In a sequence like "The Tollund Man in Springtime" and in several poems which "do the rounds of the district" – its known roads and rivers and trees, its familiar and unfamiliar ghosts – the gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection. With more relish and conviction than ever, Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals. District and Circle is the winner of the 2007 Poetry Now award and the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.

Door into the Dark

Door into the Dark PDF Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466864087
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Door into the Dark, Seamus Heaney's second collection of poems, first appeared in 1969. Already his widely celebrated gifts of precision, thoughtfulness, and musicality were everywhere apparent.

The Rattle Bag

The Rattle Bag PDF Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0571225837
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 497

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A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world.

Professing Poetry

Professing Poetry PDF Author: Michael Cavanagh
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813216710
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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The first full-length study of Heaney's poetics, Professing Poetry explores Heaney's unusual concept of influence and the various ways in which Heaney interacts with other writers

Some Say the Lark

Some Say the Lark PDF Author: Jennifer Chang
Publisher: Alice James Books
ISBN: 1938584716
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 121

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"Some Say the Lark is a piercing meditation, rooted in loss and longing, and manifest in dazzling leaps of the imagination—the familiar world rendered strange." —Natasha Trethewey Chang’s poems narrate grief and loss, and intertwines them with hope for a fresh start in the midst of new beginnings. With topics such as frustration with our social and natural world, these poems openly question the self and place and how private experiences like motherhood and sorrow necessitate a deeper engagement with public life and history. From "The Winter's Wife": I want wild roots to prosper an invention of blooms, each unknown to every wise gardener. If I could be a color. If I could be a question of tender regard. I know crabgrass and thistle. I know one algorithm: it has nothing to do with repetition or rhythm. It is the route from number to number (less to more, more to less), a map drawn by proof not faith. Unlike twilight, I do not conclude with darkness. I conclude. Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity, which was a finalist for the Glasgow/Shenandoah Prize for Emerging Writers and listed by Hyphen Magazine as a Top Five Book of Poetry for 2008. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2012, The Nation, Poetry, A Public Space, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at George Washington University and lives in Washington, DC with her family.

Preoccupations

Preoccupations PDF Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466855754
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations, begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin.