Passage to the Center : Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney / Daniel Tobin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tobin, Daniel.

Series:

Irish literature, history, and culture.

Irish Literature, History, and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Heaney, Seamus.

Holy, The, in literature.

Religious poetry, English--History and criticism.

Religious poetry, English.

Ireland--In literature.

Ireland.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (349 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1999.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, author of nine collections of poetry and three volumes of influential essays, is regarded by many as the greatest Irish poet since Yeats. Passage to the Center is the most comprehensive critical treatment to date on Heaney's poetry and the first to study Heaney's body of work up to Seeing Things and The Spirit Level. It is also the first to examine the poems from the perspective of religion, one of Heaney's guiding preoccupations. According to Tobin, the growth of Heaney's poetry may be charted through the recurrent figure of ""the center,"" a key image in the

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: One of the Venerators; List of Abbreviations; 1. Senses of Place: Death of a Naturalist; 2. Almost Unnameable Energies: Door into the Dark; 3. A Poetry of Geographical Imagination: Wintering Out; 4. Cooped Secrets of Process and Ritual: North; 5. Door into the Light: Field Work; 6. A Poet's Rite of Passage: Station Island; 7. Unwriting Place: The Haw Lantern; 8. Parables of Perfected Vision: Seeing Things; 9. Things Apparent and Transparent: The Spirit Level; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J

KL; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-327) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-9235-8

0-8131-4762-X

OCLC:

607155754