Poetry & peace : Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland / Richard Rankin Russell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, Richard Rankin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Longley, Michael, 1939---Criticism and interpretation.

Longley, Michael.

Longley, Michael, 1939---Aesthetics.

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

Heaney, Seamus.

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013--Aesthetics.

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.

Longley, Michael, 1939-2025.

Belfast Group.

Political violence in literature.

Poets, Irish--20th century--Political and social views.

Poets, Irish.

Reconciliation.

Political and social views.

Aesthetics.

Criticism and interpretation.

Northern Ireland--In literature.

Northern Ireland.

Reconciliation--Northern Ireland.

Physical Description:

xiv, 389 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Poetry and peace

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2010]

Contents:

Introduction: Northern Irish poetry, imagination, and ethics

Laying the foundations: the Belfast Group and Michael Longley's conciliatory cultural work

Lighting out for the unknown territory: Longley's No continuing city

Longley's poetry of war and peace

Fragility and ceremony: Longley's pastorals, holocaust elegies and Asian miniatures

"To make myself an echo chamber": Seamus Heaney's auditory imagination

The road to Derry, Wintering out and North: Northern dialects, Northern violence

Field work through The haw lantern: burrowing inward, looking outward

Redressing reality: seeing things through district and circle

Coda: poetry and the Northern Irish peace process.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780268040314

0268040311

OCLC:

643323422