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Professing Poetry - Seamus Heaney's Poetics (Paperback)
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Professing Poetry - Seamus Heaney's Poetics (Paperback)
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Nobel Prize winning Irish writer Seamus Heaney has been an
ambitious critic as well as poet, publishing five books of literary
criticism in the four decades of his career. This book surveys his
critical essays, setting forth Heaney's poetics- his concept of
what poetry should be and what its uses are- and relating them to
his practice as a poet. The first full-length study of Heaney's
poetics, Professing Poetry explores Heaney's unusual concept of
influence and the various ways in which Heaney interacts with other
writers. It shows how Heaney, writing brilliantly about others,
establishes quiet partnerships with them. It shows as well how he
sometimes resists writers, sometimes misrepresenting them and even
himself in the process. The book returns frequently to Heaney's
anxiety about poetry's justification, to his wariness of the
politicizing of poetry, and to his spirited and eloquent defense of
what he calls poetry's ""redress."" Heaney wants to ""make sense""
of poetry in the context of the modern world, but he feels the pull
of contradictory opinions. Poetry, he sometimes thinks, should
immerse us in the world. At other times Heaney thinks it redeems us
by putting us at a distance from the world. Professing Poetry
aspires to a simple language described by Heaney in Finders Keepers
as one in which ""there will be no gap between the professional
idiom and the personal recognition."" The study considers Heaney's
relations with Robert Lowell, Dante, Philip Larkin, Patrick
Kavanagh, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and others.
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