Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781138458451 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Bernard 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.