Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 20 December 2018
- ISBN 9780198831198
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 216x161x14 mm
- Weight 330 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 black-and-white halftones 0
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Short description:
Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry is the first full study of the development Heaney's prose poetics and their central theme, the adequacy of poetry, as a force for good in the face of history's violence.
MoreLong description:
Seamus Heaney's prose poetics return repeatedly to the adequacy of poetry, its ameliorative, restorative response to the violence of historical life. It is a curiously equivocal ideal, and as such most clearly demonstrates the intellectual origins, the humanist character, and the inherent strains of these poetics, the work of one of the world's leading poet-critics of the last thirty years. Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry is the first study of the development of Heaney's thought and its central theme. Eschewing the tendency of critics to endorse or expand on Heaney's poetics in largely adulatory terms, it draws on archival as well as print sources to trace the emerging dualistic shape, redemptive logic, and post-Christian nature of Heaney's thought, from his undergraduate formation to his late cultural poetics. It also includes a meticulous and wholly new examination of Heaney's revisions to previously published prose. Dennison takes seriously the post-Christian, frequently religious tenor of Heaney's language, showing how his belief in poetry's adequacy ultimately constitutes an Arnoldian substitute for—indeed, an 'afterimage' of—Christian belief. This is the deep significance of the idea of adequacy to Heaney's thought: it allows us to identify precisely the late humanist character and the limits of his troubled trust in poetry.
provides a refreshing new approach ... one of the finest studies of Heaney.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Idea of Adequacy
The Voices of My Education
Elements of Continuity
A Shift in Trust
Poetry is its Own Reality
To Construct Something upon which to Rejoice
The Humanist Wager
Epilogue: The Hint Half Guessed
Bibliography
Index
