Seamus Heaney and the Language Of Poetry
This book scrutinizes Heaney's language in order to examine his theory of poetry and the writer's responsibility to art and politics. The author, himself a poet, works chronologically through the poetry and discusses it in light of Heaney's writings on the appropriate language of poetry. Chapters also look at Heaney's language and at the government of the tongue.

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Seamus Heaney and the Language Of Poetry
This book scrutinizes Heaney's language in order to examine his theory of poetry and the writer's responsibility to art and politics. The author, himself a poet, works chronologically through the poetry and discusses it in light of Heaney's writings on the appropriate language of poetry. Chapters also look at Heaney's language and at the government of the tongue.

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Seamus Heaney and the Language Of Poetry

Seamus Heaney and the Language Of Poetry

by Bernard O'Donoghue
Seamus Heaney and the Language Of Poetry

Seamus Heaney and the Language Of Poetry

by Bernard O'Donoghue

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Overview

This book scrutinizes Heaney's language in order to examine his theory of poetry and the writer's responsibility to art and politics. The author, himself a poet, works chronologically through the poetry and discusses it in light of Heaney's writings on the appropriate language of poetry. Chapters also look at Heaney's language and at the government of the tongue.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780745007168
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/06/1994
Pages: 186
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Bernard O'Donoghue is a poet and academic, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Table of Contents

Introduction: An art that knows its mind 1. English or Irish lyric? 2. 60s Heaney 3. Phonetics and feeling - from Wintering Out to Field Work 4. 70s Heaney 5. The Limbo of Lost Words - the Sweeney complex 6. Beyond the alphabet - The Haw Lantern and Seeing Things 7. Heaney's Ars Poetica - Mandelstam, Dante and The Government of the Tongue Conclusion.
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