Seamus Heaney and East European poetry in translation : poetics of exile / Carmen Bugan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bugan, Carmen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Heaney, Seamus.

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.

English poetry--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English poetry.

English poetry--Irish authors.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

x, 203 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Legenda, 2013.

Summary:

Poetry born of historical upheaval bears witness both to actual historical events and considerations of poetics. Under the duress of history the poet, who is torn between lamentation and celebration, seeks to achieve distance from his troubled times. Add to this a deep love for and commitment to the Irish and English poetic traditions, and a strong desire to search for models outside his culture, and you have the poetry of the Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney (1939-). In this study, Carmen Bugan looks at how the poetry of Seamus Heaney, born of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, has encountered the 'historically-tested imaginations' of Czeslaw Milosz, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, and Zbigniew Herbert, as he aimed to fulfil a Horatian poetics, a poetry meant to both instruct and delight its readers. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Writing 'for the Joy of It': Seamus Heaney and Osip Mandelstam 24

2 'Audenesque': Seamus Heaney and Joseph Brodsky 59

3 How to be a Responsible Poet: Czeslaw Milosz and Seamus Heaney 95

4 'Keeper of Civilizations': Seamus Heaney and Zbigniew Herbert 136.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1907975640

9781907975646

OCLC:

842341638