The Cambridge companion to Seamus Heaney

The Cambridge companion to Seamus Heaney / edited by Bernard O'Donoghue.

Seamus Heaney is a unique phenomenon in contemporary literature, as a poet whose individual volumes (such as his Beowulf translation, and individual volumes of poems such as Electric Light and District and Circle) have been high in the bestseller lists for decades. Since winning the Nobel Prize for...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: O'Donoghue, Bernard (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
Heaney, Seamus, > 1939-2013 > Criticism and interpretation.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Bernard O'Donoghue
  • Seamus Heaney's working titles : from 'Advancements of learning' to 'Midnight anvil' / Rand Brandes
  • The context of Heaney's reception / Patrick Crotty
  • Heaney in public / Dennis O'Driscoll
  • Heaney and the feminine / Fran Brearton
  • Heaney and Eastern Europe / Justin Quinn
  • Heaney's classics and the bucolic / Bernard O'Donoghue
  • Professing poetry : Heaney as critic / David Wheatley
  • Heaney and the Irish poetic tradition / Andrew Murphy
  • Irish influence and confluence in Heaney's poetry / Dillon Johnston
  • Heaney and Yeats / Neil Corcoran
  • Heaney's Wordsworth and the poetics of displacement / Guinn Beatten
  • Heaney, Beowulf, and the medieval literature of the North / Heather O'Donoghue
  • Crediting marvels : Heaney after 50 / John Wilson Foster.

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