Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the good of poetry / Rachel Falconer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falconer, Rachel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Virgil--Language.

Virgil.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Summary:

The first book-length study of Heaney's dialogue with Virgil, one of Seamus Heaney's major literary exemplars.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Plates

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Golden Bough and the Absent Tree

2. Threshold Crossings in Seeing Things

3. Orpheus in a Major Key

4. Pastoral, Pietas and Stealth

5. ‘Terra tremens’: District and Circle

6. ‘In river country’: The Riverbank Field

7. Raids, Settlement and Sounding Line

8. Cadence and Lapse in Human Chain

9. A Double Music: Aeneid Book VI

Coda: ‘Mossbawn via Mantua’

Appendix: ‘Palinurus’: Aeneid Book VI, lines 349–83

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Falconer, Rachel Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of Poetry

ISBN:

1-4744-5442-9

1-4744-5441-0

OCLC:

1303892793