The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

Informationen zum Autor Bernard O'Donoghue is Fellow of Wadham College and University Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford. Klappentext This Companion gives an up-to-date overview of HeaneyâEUR(TM)s career thus far! with detailed readings of all his major publications. Designed for students! this volume will also have much to interest and inform the general reader and admirer of HeaneyâEUR(TM)s unique poetic voice. Zusammenfassung This Companion gives an overview of Heaney's career! with detailed readings of his major publications. Designed for students! this volume will also have much to interest and inform the general reader and admirer of Heaney's unique poetic voice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Bernard O'Donoghue; 2. Heaney's working titles: from Advancement of Learning to Midnight Anvil Rand Brandes; 3. The context of Heaney's reception Patrick Crotty; 4. Heaney in public Dennis O'Driscoll; 5. Heaney and the feminine Fran Brearton; 6. Heaney and Eastern Europe Justin Quinn; 7. Heaney's classics and the bucolic Bernard O'Donoghue; 8. Professing poetry: Heaney as critic David Wheatley; 9. Heaney and the Irish Poetic Tradition Andrew Murphy; 10. Irish influence and confluence in Heaney's poetry Dillon Johnston; 11. Heaney and Yeats Neil Corcoran; 12. Heaney's Wordsworth and the poetics of displacement Guinn Batten; 13. Heaney, Beowulf, and the medieval literature of the north Heather O'Donoghue; 14. Crediting marvels: Heaney after 50 John Wilson Foster; Guide to further reading; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Bernard O'Donoghue
• Assisted by: Bernard O'Donoghue (Editor), Bernard (Wadham College O'Donoghue (Editor), O'Donoghue Bernard (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521547550
• ISBN: 978-0-521-54755-0
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 227 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Ireland, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets