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    Seamus Heaney and Society by Lavan, Rosie;

    Series: Oxford English Monographs;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 22 April 2020

    • ISBN 9780198822974
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages198 pages
    • Size 233x161x18 mm
    • Weight 484 g
    • Language English
    • 56

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    Short description:

    This book presents a comprehensive and dynamic engagement of the work of Seamus Heaney, examining his poetry in relation to the other roles he assumed in education, journalism, and broadcasting.

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    Long description:

    Throughout his career in poetry, Seamus Heaney maintained roles in education and was a visible presence in the print and broadcast media. Seamus Heaney and Society presents a dynamic new engagement with one of the most celebrated poets of the modern period, examining the ways in which his work as a poet was shaped by his work as a teacher, lecturer, critic, and public figure.

    Drawing on a range of archival material, this book revives the varied contexts within which Heaney's work was written, published, and circulated. Mindful of the different spheres which surrounded his pursuit of poetry, it assesses his achievements and status in Ireland, Britain, and the United States through close analysis of his work in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, and manuscript drafts of key writings now held in the National Library of Ireland.

    Asserting the significance of the cultural, institutional, and historical worlds in which Heaney wrote and was read, Seamus Heaney and Society offers a timely reconstruction of the social lives of his work, while also exploring the ways in which he questioned and sustained the privacy and singularity of poetry. Ultimately, it considers how the enduring legacy of a great poet emerges from the working life of a contemporary writer.

    also adds shading and nuance to our perception of the poet in the world ... [Lavan's] writing is rich with the materiality of that archival trawl and the authenticity of her engagement with the poet and his milieu.

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    Table of Contents:

    Publishing in London
    Images of Belfast
    Education and the Radio
    The University and the Canon
    Responsibilities

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