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Seamus Heaney (Paperback)
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Seamus Heaney (Paperback)
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Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats
poem "Among School Children". View her insightful and passionate
analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the
course. Poet and critic are well met, as one of our best writers on
poetry takes up one of the world's great poets. Where other books
on the Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney have dwelt chiefly on the
biographical, geographical, and political aspects of his writing,
this book looks squarely and deeply at Heaney's poetry as art. A
reading of the poet's development over the past thirty years,
Seamus Heaney tells a story of poetic inventiveness, of ongoing
experimentation in form and expression. It is an inspired and
nuanced portrait of an Irish poet of public as well as private
life, whose work has given voice to his troubled times. With
characteristic discernment and eloquence, Helen Vendler traces
Heaney's invention as it evolves from his beginnings in Death of a
Naturalist (1966) through his most recent volume, The Spirit Level
(1996). In sections entitled "Second Thoughts," she considers an
often neglected but crucial part of Heaney's evolving talent:
self-revision. Here we see how later poems return to the themes or
genres of the earlier volumes, and reconceive them in light of the
poet's later attitudes or techniques. Vendler surveys all of
Heaney's efforts in the classical forms--genre scene, elegy,
sonnet, parable, confessional poem, poem of perception--and brings
to light his aesthetic and moral attitudes. Seamus Heaney's
development as a poet is inextricably connected to the violent
struggle that has racked Northern Ireland. Vendler shows how, from
one volume to the next, Heaney has maintained vigilant attention
toward finding a language for his time--"symbols adequate for our
predicament," as he has said. The worldwide response to those
discovered symbols suggests that their relevance extends far beyond
this moment.
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