"The soul exceeds its circumstances" : the later poetry of Seamus Heaney

"The soul exceeds its circumstances" : the later poetry of Seamus Heaney /

""The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances": The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney brings together sixteen of the most prominent scholars who have written on Seamus Heaney to examine the Nobel prize-winner's later poetry from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives. While a grea...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Heaney, Seamus, > 1939-2013 > Criticism and interpretation.
Heaney, Seamus, > 1939-2013 > Literary style.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • "THE SOUL EXCEEDS ITS CIRCUMSTANCES"
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. Heaney and Death
  • 1 Surviving Death in Heaney's Human Chain
  • 2 Death and Everyman: Imagining a "Not Unwelcoming Emptiness"
  • 3 Squarings
  • PART II. Heaney's Later Style
  • 4 The Freed Speech of "Equivocal Words": Seamus Heaney's Door into the Light
  • 5 Happening Once for Ever: Heaney's Late Style
  • 6 "The Whole of Me A-Patter": Image, Feeling, and Finding Form in Heaney's Late Work
  • PART III. Translation and Transnational Poetics
  • 7 "Renewed, Transfigured, in Another Pattern": Metaphor and Displacement in Seamus Heaney's Human Chain
  • 8 The Reluctant Transatlanticist: "Like a Weeping Willow Inclined to the Appetites of Gravity"
  • 9 Crediting Marvels or Taking Responsibility: Vocation and Declarations of Intent by Seamus Heaney after Seeing Things
  • PART IV. Luminous Things and Gifts
  • 10 Seamus Heaney's Gifts
  • 11 "Deep Down Things": The Inner Lives of Things in Later Heaney
  • 12 "Door into the Light": The Later Poems of Seamus Heaney
  • PART V. Usual and Unusual Spaces
  • 13 "Scatter-Eyed / And Daunted": The "Matrixial Gaze" in Seeing Things
  • 14 "Beyond Maps and Atlases": Transfiguration and Immanence in the Later Poems of Seamus Heaney
  • 15 The Poetics of Reverie and Revelation in the Last Poems
  • 16 "The Door Stands Open": Liminal Spaces in the Later Heaney
  • Works Cited
  • List of Contributors
  • Index.

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