Seamus Heaney and American poetry / Christopher Laverty.
2022
PR6058.E2
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Title
Seamus Heaney and American poetry / Christopher Laverty.
Author
Laverty, Christopher.
ISBN
9783030955687 (electronic bk.)
3030955680 (electronic bk.)
9783030955670
3030955672
3030955680 (electronic bk.)
9783030955670
3030955672
Publication Details
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (251 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-95568-7 doi
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PR6058.E2
Dewey Decimal Classification
821/.914
Summary
This book examines the influence of American poetry on Seamus Heaneys achievement by close attention to the themes, style, and resonances of his poetry at different stages of his career, including his appointments in Berkeley and Harvard. Beginning with an examination of Heaneys education at Queens University, this study presents comparative close readings which explore the influence of five American poets he read during this period: Robert Frost, John Crowe Ransom, Theodore Roethke, Robert Lowell, and Elizabeth Bishop. Laverty demonstrates how Heaney returned to several of these poets in response to difficulty and to consolidate later aesthetic developments. Heaneys ambivalent critical treatment of Sylvia Plath is investigated, as is his partial misreading of Bishop, who is understood today more sensitively than in her lifetime. This study also probes the reasons for his elision of other prominent American writers, making this the first comprehensive assessment of American influence on Heaneys poetry. Dr Christopher Laverty is an academic researcher based at Queens University, Belfast, where he completed his PhD in 2019. His work has been published in Twentieth-century Literature, Irish Studies Review, and Estudios Irlandeses.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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New directions in Irish and Irish American literature.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Introduction: America and Northern Ireland
Chapter 2
Belfast: Heaney in the 1960s
Chapter 3
California 1970-71
Chapter 4
Together and Apart: Heaney and Lowell
Chapter 5
The Walk on Air: Heaney and Bishop
Chapter 6
American Poetry and Heaneys Final Works
Chapter 7
Conclusion.
Introduction: America and Northern Ireland
Chapter 2
Belfast: Heaney in the 1960s
Chapter 3
California 1970-71
Chapter 4
Together and Apart: Heaney and Lowell
Chapter 5
The Walk on Air: Heaney and Bishop
Chapter 6
American Poetry and Heaneys Final Works
Chapter 7
Conclusion.