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Christopher Laverty
This book examines the influence of American poetry on Seamus Heaney’s achievement by close attention to the themes, style, and resonances of his poetry at different stages of his career…
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Seamus Heaney (Harvard University)
A masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century
In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney’s translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil’s epic poem composed sometime between…
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Kieran Quinlan
Starts from Heaney’s awareness in the new millennium of something far more important in my mental formation than cultural nationalism or the British presence or any of that stuff -…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Seamus Heaney’s Digging, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
A Study Guide for Seamus Heaney’s Follower, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
A Study Guide for Seamus Heaney’s Midnight, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
A Study Guide for Seamus Heaney’s The Forge, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Rachel Falconer
The first book-length study of Heaney’s dialogue with Virgil, one of Seamus Heaney’s major literary exemplars.
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The first book-length study of Heaney's dialogue with Virgil, one of Seamus Heaney's major literary exemplars.
This volume of twelve essays aims to comprehensively represent the abundance and variety of both Heaney’s writing and scholarship on Heaney’s writing. Attention is given not only to his poetry…
Henry Hart
An assessment of Heaney’s poetry and prose, tracing his contrary progressions through phases of affirmation and despair. Hart explores Heaney’s work from the 1960s to The Haw Lantern , seeking…
Dennis O'Driscoll (freelance)
A unique insight into the life and mind of Seamus Heaney.
Dennis O'Driscoll
Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of many critical studies. This book retraces the poet’s steps from his early works, through to…
Sophocles
In this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland’s renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles’ masterpiece, and inks it with…
A Study Guide for Seamus Heaney’s A Drink of Water, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Seamus Heaney’s The Singer’s House, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Eugene O'Brien
Seamus Heaney’s death in August 2013 brought to completion his body of work, and scholars are only now coming to understand the full scale and importance of his career. Much…
Bridget Vincent (Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary Poetry, University of Nottingham)
Studies the work of Seamus Heaney and Goeffrey Hill to present new perspectives on the way literature communicates moral knowledge.
Joanne Piavanini
Cultural Memory in Seamus Heaney’s Late Work considers the ways that memory functions in Heaney’s poetry.
The death in 2013 of Seamus Heaney is an appropriate point to honour the great Irish poet’s major contribution to classical reception in modern poetry. This is the first volume…
Shay Daly
York Notes Advanced offers a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today’s A-level and undergraduate students. Written…
Elhayawi Mayy
In an age void of exclusive identities, limited localities or hindering cultural borders, the entire world turns into a diaspora, where the continuous tension between living and longing, coexistence and…
Tayyab Areeba,Abdullah Sarah
The book does an Eco- acoustic reading of soundscape dynamics in Seamus Heaney’s Collection Death of a Naturalist. Although in previous years a lot of research had been done on…
Lecture proceedings including the essence of theatre; Ireland’s contribution to the art of theatre; the potential of drama in the classroom; the relationship between drama and film; and on opera…
Daniel Tobin
To whom should we look for moral guidance during times of global violence, scarcity, and corruption? For two millennia, Aristotle’s writings have taught that the ethically good life is the…
Meg Tyler
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Incorporating readings of Heaney’s elegies, pastoral eclogues and sonnets, this book presents a formal analysis which comprises close readings of Seamus Heaney’s poetry. By a detailed structural analysis of diction…
Homer
Odysseus leads his men on a long voyage home from the Trojan War.
This new edition functions as an affordable single-volume introduction to Irish poetry since 1900–revealed in the words of some of its finest living practitioners.
A companion to The Rattle Bag, The School Bag is an engaging and authoritative selection for the classroom. Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes have chosen an eclectic range of poets…
Edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, and conceived of as a collection of their own favourite poems, The Rattle Bag has established itself as the classic anthology of our…
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Seamus Heaney
The complete translations of the poet Seamus Heaney, a Nobel laureate and prolific, revolutionary translator.
Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf, published in 2000, was immediately hailed as an undisputed masterpiece…
Accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right. -New York Times Book Review
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Hugh Mulrooney
This book attempts to bring the writing of Seamus Heaney to the general public. It is based entirely on Heaney’s own words and should make his poetry accessible to the…
Peggy O'Brien
Aims to show how a discrete tradition of writing about Lough Derg helped contemporary Irish poets rescue, metaphysical inquiry from the grip of nationalism. Surveying literary treatments of Lough Derg…
Carmen Bugan
This book looks at how the poetry of Seamus Heaney, born of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, has encountered the ‘historically-tested imaginations’ of Czeslaw Milosz, Joseph Brodsky, Osip Mandelstam, and…
Richard Rankin Russell
Poetry and Peace explores Longley’s and Heaney’s poetic fidelity to the imagination and their creation, through poetry, of a powerful cultural and sacred space.
Sixteen scholars examine Seamus Heaney’s lesser known later poetry, from 1990 onward, pointing out continuity with and new themes from his earlier works.
William Butler Yeats
W. B. Yeats es, junto a Ezra Pound y T.S. Eliot, el gran renovador de la poesia europea del siglo XX.
Por su siempre inspirada poesia, que con una forma…
Josie O'Donoghue
This book considers metaphor as a communicative phenomenon in the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop and Seamus Heaney, in light of the relevance theory account of communication first developed…
Susanna Lidstroem
The environmental challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century are not only acute and grave, they are also unprecedented in kind, complexity and scope. Nonetheless, or therefore, the political response…
Various
Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations - the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India’s Ganges, Egypt’s Nile, the Yellow River of China - and have nourished modern cities…
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