The redress of poetry / Seamus Heaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--History and criticism.

English poetry.

American poetry--History and criticism.

American poetry.

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

English poetry--Irish authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xviii, 211 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.

Summary:

Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential, a motion of the soul." Throughout this collection, Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of a poetic order.

Contents:

The redress of poetry

Extending the alphabet : on Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander'

Orpheus in Ireland : on Brian Merriman's The midnight court

John Clare's Prog

Speranza in Reading : on 'The ballad of Reading Gaol'

A torchlight procession of one : on Hugh MacDiarmid

Dylan the durable? : on Dylan Thomas

Joy or night : last things in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Philip Larkin

Counting to a hundred : on Elizabeth Bishop

Frontiers of writing.

Notes:

"The ten lectures reprinted here were first delivered in the course of my tenure as Professor of Poetry at Oxford between 1989 and 1994"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.

"First Noonday Press paperback edition, 1996"--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

0374524882

9780374524883

OCLC:

45795457