Seamus Heaney : a collection of critical essays / [edited by] Elmer Andrews.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kennedy-Andrews, Elmer, 1948-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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:

xi, 273 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992.

Summary:

In this volume Elmer Andrews has collected eleven essays addressing the entire poetic oeuvre of Seamus Heaney up to and including Seeing Things and the verse play The Cure at Troy. The eleven writers include poets and critics of distinction from Britain and America as well as from Ireland. They examine a wide variety of aspects of Heaney's work, and open up, from various angles, the sources, directions, continuities and purposes of Heaney's career to date. Heaney has always been ready to try new things: these essays are designed to help the reader get a clearer picture of the 'figure in the carpet'. The poetry is analysed and assessed in its own right, but it is also discussed in relation to its literary, social and historical contexts. A spectrum of approaches is represented, from traditional humanist perspectives to those of post-structuralist, political and cultural criticism. In their concern with the values embodied in Heaney's acts of language, these essays make an important contribution to the contemporary cultural debate in Ireland. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in the poetry of Seamus Heaney and in contemporary poetry in general.

Contents:

'The best way out is always through' / Andrew Waterman

The trouble with Seamus / James Simmons

'We pine for ceremony' : ritual and reality in the poetry of Seamus Heaney, 1965-75 / Maurice Harmon

'Pap for the dispossessed' : Seamus Heaney and the poetics of identity / David Lloyd

Seamus Heaney and the possibilities of poetry / John Lucas

Irish ghosts : 'Station Island' / Louis Simpson

'A rich young man leaving everything he had' : poetic freedom in Seamus Heaney / Robert Welch

The witnessing eye and the speaking tongue / Terence Brown

'Holding course' : the Haw Lantern and its place in Heaney's development / Michael Allen

The spirit's protest / Elmer Andrews

Mediations : poet as translator, poet as seer / Alan Peacock.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-266) an index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

031204710X

9780312047108

OCLC:

21117513

Online:

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