Regional voices from England, Ireland, and Scotland inspired Seamus
Heaney, the 1995 Nobel prize-winner, to become a poet, and his home
region of Northern Ireland provided the subject matter for much of
his poetry. In his work, Heaney explored, recorded, and preserved
both the disappearing agrarian life of his origins and the dramatic
rise of sectarianism and the subsequent outbreak of the Northern
Irish "Troubles" beginning in the late 1960s. At the same time,
Heaney consistently imagined a new region of Northern Ireland where
the conflicts that have long beset it and, by extension, the
relationship between Ireland and the United Kingdom might be
synthesized and resolved. Finally, there is a third region Heaney
committed himself to explore and map-the spirit region, that world
beyond our ken. In Seamus Heaney's Regions, Richard Rankin Russell
argues that Heaney's regions-the first, geographic, historical,
political, cultural, linguistic; the second, a future where peace,
even reconciliation, might one day flourish; the third, the life
beyond this one-offer the best entrance into and a unified
understanding of Heaney's body of work in poetry, prose,
translations, and drama. As Russell shows, Heaney believed in the
power of ideas-and the texts representing them-to begin resolving
historical divisions. For Russell, Heaney's regionalist poetry
contains a "Hegelian synthesis" view of history that imagines
potential resolutions to the conflicts that have plagued Ireland
and Northern Ireland for centuries. Drawing on extensive archival
and primary material by the poet, Seamus Heaney's Regions examines
Heaney's work from before his first published poetry volume, Death
of a Naturalist in 1966, to his most recent volume, the elegiac
Human Chain in 2010, to provide the most comprehensive treatment of
the poet's work to date.
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