TY - GEN N2 - 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. DO - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198739197 DO - doi AB - 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. T1 - Seamus Heaney and the adequacy of poetry AU - Dennison, John, ET - First edition. CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - PR6058.E2 ID - 756993 KW - Poetics. KW - Poetry SN - 9780191802331 TI - Seamus Heaney and the adequacy of poetry LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198739197.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198739197.001.0001 ER -