Seamus Heaney and the Language Of Poetry

ISBN-13: 9780745007168 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 186 str.

Bernard O'Donoghue; Tom O'Donoghue; Tom O'Donoghue

Opis

Scrutinizes Heaney's language in order to examine his theory of poetry and the writer's responsibility to art and politics. The author, himself a poet, works chronologically through the poetry and discusses it in light of Heaney's writings on the appropriate language of poetry.

Spis treści

Introduction: "An art that knows its mind"  1. English or Irish lyric?  2. 60s Heaney  3. Phonetics and feeling - from "Wintering Out" to "Field Work"  4. 70s Heaney  5. "The Limbo of Lost Words" - the Sweeney complex  6. Beyond the alphabet - "The Haw Lantern" and "Seeing Things"  7. Heaney's "Ars Poetica" - Mandelstam, Dante and "The Government of the Tongue"  Conclusion.

O autorze

Bernard O'Donoghue is a poet and academic, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.