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Seamus Heaney
Helen Hennessy VendlerWhere other books on the Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney have dwelt chiefly on the biographical, geographical, and political aspects of his writing, this book looks squarely and deeply at Heaney's poetry as art.
Seamus Heaney
PreviewProvides insight into seven of Heaney's works along with a short biography of the poet.
Seamus Heaney: An Introduction
Richard Rankin RussellDiscussing Heaney's deep immersion in Irish Catholicism, this book demonstrates how faith influenced his belief system, poetry and politics.
Beowulf
Seamus HeaneyIt is not hard to draw parallels between this story and the history of the twentieth century, nor can Heaney's Beowulf fail to be read partly in the light of his Northern Irish upbringing.
District and Circle
Seamus HeaneySeamus 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 twentieth-first century.
North
Seamus HeaneyIn North Seamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people, history and landscape.
The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Study
Neil CorcoranThe new edition, which like the original has had the advantage of Seamus Heaney's own cooperation and unstinted access to the poet's papers, follows the same pattern, adding a chapter apiece on the major collections of poems published since ...
The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney
PreviewIn District and Circle, Heaney remembers the dead Mick Joyce ('Out of your element'; 'To Mick Joyce in Heaven', DC 8) as he remembered the casualty of the Troubles who would not honour the tribal demarcations, but in this recent memory ...
Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry
Conor McCarthyFirst examination of the use made by Seamus Heaney of medieval poetry in his translations and adaptations, including the acclaimed Beowulf.
The Yellow Nib 5: The Literary Journal of the Seamus Heaney ...
Ciaran CarsonA collection of poems from The Literary Journal of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry.
Seamus Heaney: The Crisis of Identity
Floyd CollinsIn this study, Floyd Collins develops a model of crisis that proves an apt tool for assessing Seamus Heaney's poetic career.
Seamus Heaney: The Making of the Poet
Michael ParkerThis book provides the fullest account yet of his early life as an Ulster Catholic and the experiences, influences, and relationships - personal, literary, and political - that shaped his poetic development and awareness in the midst of the ...
Party in the Street
Michael T. Heaney“Cosponsoring Legislation in the U.S. Congress.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 7( 3):415–22. Caren, Neal, Raj Andrew Ghoshal, and Vanesa Ribas. 2011. “A Social Movement Generation: Trends in Protesting and Petition Signing, 1973– 2006.
Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext
Neil CorcoranIn Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext, Neil Corcoran discusses the work of Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Austin Clarke, Padraic Fallon, Louis MacNeice, and Ciaran Carson, constructing a critical account of the ...
Seamus Heaney (Text Only)
Helen VendlerA dazzling short assessment of the life and work of the poet and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature.
John Clare in Context
Geoffrey SummerfieldCritics including Seamus Heaney provide a welcome reappraisal in the wake of Clare's bicentenary.
English Poetry Since 1940
Neil CorcoranThe book will be especially useful for students as it includes detailed and lively readings of works by such poets as Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Philip Larkin.
Una vita come le altre
Darcy O'Brien"Un autentico capolavoro, fatto per correre come un levriero, veloce ed elegante". SEAMUS HEANEY
Sounding the Seasons: Poetry for the Christian Year
Malcolm GuiteSeven Advent poems from this collection will appear in the next edition of Penguin's (US) Best Spiritual Writing edited by Philip Zaleski, alongside the work of writers such as Seamus Heaney and Annie Dillard.
Shakespeare and Ireland: History, Politics, Culture
More editionsThe writings of Joyce, Heaney and Yeats are considered, in addition to recent nationalist discourses. In so doing, the collection establishes the multiple 'Shakespeares' and competing 'Irelands' that inform the Irish imagination.
Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry
Fiona StaffordThis book explores the literature of local attachment through the consideration of works by writers - Heaney, Burns, Wordsworth, Scott, Lamb, and Dickens - whose feeling for place is especially evident.
Burdett's Hospitals and Charities: Being the Year Book of ...
Sir Henry C. BurdettHome, Westgate-on-Sea, 690 St. Michael's Horne, Cheddar, 973 St. Michael's Hm., Axbridge, 1024 St. Michael's Horne, Loamington, 946 St. Michael's Home ( Shalbourne), 948 St. Michael's H. Hayle, 401 ,' St. Michael's H., Kingstown, 600 St.
Ubiquitous Translation
Piotr BlumczynskiWhen asked for a comment on translational trust, Magda Heydel, the award- winning Polish translator of an impressive range of authors and poets (including Joseph Conrad, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, and Virginia Woolf) has ...
The Chosen ground: essays on the contemporary poetry of ...
Neil CorcoranHow do Heaney's terms 'place and displacement' apply to his own work? Is Paulin's development of cultural analysis in poetry an effective response? This book offers new readings of poetry from Northern Ireland.
Sparkle, Assassin
Alan JacksonIn this powerful and incisive book Alan Jackson completely revises the reputations of Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Carl Jung and Karl Marx amongst others and in doing so characterises the clashing spiritual forces that work upon us in this ...
John Clare
Jonathan Bate‘What distinguished Clare is an unspectacular joy and a love for the inexorable one-thing-after-anotherness of the world’ Seamus Heaney John Clare (1793-1864) was a great Romantic poet, with a name to rival that of Blake, Byron, ...
Thought
More editionsJohn Giles Milhaven 343 Guttmann, Allen: The conservative tradition (Francis X. Duggan) 157 Hagopian, John V.: /. F. Powers (Lawrence Cunningham) 132 Hiring, Bernard : Christian maturity ( Richard W. Rousseau ) 136 Heaney, John J. : ...
Poetry & Responsibility
Neil CorcoranThe book discusses the poetry of the First World War and the Cold War in such poets as Owen, Rosenberg, Pasternak, Zbigniew Herbert and Robert Lowell; the poetry and politics of modern Ireland in Yeats, MacNeice, Heaney and others; and ...
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