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This Strange Loneliness - Heaney's Wordsworth (Paperback)
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This Strange Loneliness - Heaney's Wordsworth (Paperback)
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This Strange Loneliness is the first comprehensive account of the
poetic relationship between Seamus Heaney and William Wordsworth.
Peter Mackay explores how Heaney repeatedly turns to the Romantic
poet's work for inspiration, corroboration, and amplification, and
as a model for the fortifying power of poetry itself, which offers
the fundamental lesson that "it is on this earth 'we find our
happiness, or not at all.'" Through an in-depth look at archival
materials, and at uncollected poems and prose by Heaney, Mackay
traces the evolution of Heaney's readings of Wordsworth throughout
his career, revealing their shared interest in the connections
between poetry and education, the possibility of a beneficial
understanding of poetic influence, the complexities of place and
displacement, ideas of transcendence, and ultimately the importance
of "late style": later poems by Wordsworth might prove a cautionary
tale, as well as example, for any poet. Placing Heaney's readings
within their political, historical, and poetic contexts the book
also explores how he negotiated the complex relationship between
Irish and British culture and identity to claim a persistent form
of kinship, and forge a strange community, with the Romantic poet.
With illuminating readings that reveal new contexts to and currents
in Heaney's work, This Strange Loneliness is a powerful evocation
of the Irish poet's sense of the "uplift" that poetry can provide.
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