Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator

227 Pages·2007·0.737 MB·English

by  Ashby Bland Crowder, Jason David Hall (eds.)

Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney
Poet, Critic, Translator
Edited by
Ashby Bland Crowder
and
Jason David Hall
Editorial matter,selection and introduction
© Ashby Bland Crowder and Jason David Hall2007
Individual chapters © contributors 2007
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Seamus Heaney :poet,critic,translator / edited by Ashby Bland Crowder
and Jason David Hall.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Heaney,Seamus,1939 – Criticism and interpretation.
I.Crowder,A.B.II.Hall,Jason David,1975–
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To the memory of Paul Turner
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction 1
Ashby Bland Crowder and Jason David Hall
1 Seamus Heaney and the Modern Irish Elegy 9
Stephen Regan
2 Poems without Frontiers: Poetic Reception and
Political Possibility in the Work of Seamus Heaney 26
Richard Rankin Russell
3 ‘A Meaning Made of Trees’: The Unwriting of a Symbol 42
Colleen McKenna
4 Reading Heaney Reading 59
Sidney Burris
5 Heaney and the Functions of Prose 74
Michael Baron
6 The ‘Upward Waft’: The Influence of Frost and Eliot
on Heaney’s Later Phase 92
Daniel W. Ross
7 The Way Via Warsaw: Seamus Heaney and
Post-War Polish Poets 103
Jerzy Jarniewicz
8 The Cure at Troy: Sophocles or Heaney? 121
Paul Turner
9 Putting a Bawn into Beowulf 136
Alison Finlay
10 Remember Everything: Things Past in Station Island 155
Joseph Brooker
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11 ‘The cure by poetry that cannot be coerced’: Text,
Canon and Context in Seamus Heaney’s Electric Light 172
Ruben Moi
12 Literary Allusions, Appropriations and Assimilations 189
Barbara Hardy
Index 210
Acknowledgements
The editors wish to express their gratitude for the good help provided
by Lynn Crowder, Gina Goad, Marquita Little, Kelly Melhorn and
KeeleyMurray.
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