Seamus Heaney and the adequacy of poetry [electronic resource] / John Dennison.
Dennison, John, author.
2015
PR6058.E2 Z55 2015eb
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Title
Seamus Heaney and the adequacy of poetry [electronic resource] / John Dennison.
Author
Dennison, John, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191802331 (electronic book)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198739197
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 245 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198739197 doi
Call Number
PR6058.E2 Z55 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
821.914
Summary
Seamus Heaney's prose poetics return repeatedly to the adequacy of poetry, its ameliorative, restorative response to the violence of public historical life. It is a curiously equivocal ideal, and as such most clearly demonstrates the intellectual origins, the humanist character, and the inherent strains of these poetics, the work of one of the world's leading poet-critics of the last thirty years. 'Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry' provides a study of the development of Heaney's thought and its central theme.
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Seamus Heaney's prose poetics return repeatedly to the adequacy of poetry, its ameliorative, restorative response to the violence of public historical life. It is a curiously equivocal ideal, and as such most clearly demonstrates the intellectual origins, the humanist character, and the inherent strains of these poetics, the work of one of the world's leading poet-critics of the last thirty years. 'Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry' provides a study of the development of Heaney's thought and its central theme.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: The idea of adequacy
1. The voices of my education
The origins of an idea
Educating voices
The emerging poet-critic
2. Elements of continuity
History is a nightmare
An unstable amalgam
In a field of force
3. A shift in trust
Towards a purer paradigm
Differentiations
Falling into dualism
4. Poetry is its own reality
Muscular humanism
Rejecting Neruda
A redemptive logic
5. To construct something upon which to rejoice
Working up an idiom
The redress of poetry
Joy and night
Supreme fictions
The prose revisions.

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