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"The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances" - The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Hardcover)
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"The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances" - The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Hardcover)
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The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances brings together sixteen of the
most prominent scholars who have written on Seamus Heaney to
examine the Nobel Prize winner's later poetry from a variety of
critical and theoretical perspectives. While a great deal of
attention has been devoted to Heaney's early and middle poems-the
Bog Poems in particular-this book focuses on the poetry collected
in Heaney's Seeing Things (1991), The Spirit Level (1996), Electric
Light (2001), District and Circle (2006), and Human Chain (2010) as
a thematically connected set of writings. The starting point of the
essays in this collection is that these later poems can be grouped
in terms of style, theme, approach, and intertextuality. They
develop themes that were apparent in Heaney's earlier work, but
they also break with these themes and address issues that are
radically different from those of the earlier collections. The
essays are divided into five sections, focusing on ideas of death,
the later style, translation and transnational poetics, luminous
things and gifts, and usual and unusual spaces. A number of the
contributors see Heaney as stressing the literary over the actual
and as always looking at the interstices and positions of
liminality and complexity. His use of literary references in his
later poetry exemplifies his search for literary avatars against
whom he can test his own ideas and with whom he can enter into an
aesthetic and ethical dialogue. The essayists cover a great deal of
Heaney's debts to classical and modern literature-in the original
languages and in translations-and demonstrate the degree to which
the streets on which Heaney walked and wrote were two-way: he was
influenced by Virgil, Petrarch, Milosz, Wordsworth, Keats, Rilke,
and others and, in turn, had an impact on contemporary poets. This
remarkable collection will appeal to scholars and literary critics,
undergraduates as well as graduate students, and to the many
general readers of Heaney's poetry.
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