The Poetry of Seamus Heaney / edited by Elmer Andrews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer, 1948-

Series:

Columbia critical guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013--Criticism and interpretation.

Heaney, Seamus.

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.

Criticism and interpretation.

Northern Ireland--In literature.

Northern Ireland.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

191 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2000]

Summary:

In this collection of critical responses to Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney's poetry, Elmer Andrews presents the debates surrounding the poet's work and popular appeal. The writings gathered in this "Columbia Critical Guide" clarify and explore issues of cultural identity and nationality, as well as debates on the power of language and the function of verse. Beginning with Heaney's early collection, "Death of a Naturalist, " the guide reviews and contextualizes material on successive volumes (including 1996's "The Spirit Level"), so that students of Heaney's verse will find an accessible pathway through the most important critical writings on this major poet.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Heaney and the Anglo-American Canon 7

Chapter 2 Place, Identity, Language 40

Chapter 3 Poetry and Politics 80

Chapter 4 Gender, Colonialism, Nationalism 120

Chapter 5 Powers of Earth and Visions of Air 142.

Notes:

"First published in the Icon Critical Guides series in 1998 by Icon Books Ltd."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0231119267

0231119275

OCLC:

187487390