Seamus Heaney and the Classics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 September 2019
- ISBN 9780198805656
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 224x146x23 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 colour illustrations 0
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Short description:
The death in 2013 of Seamus Heaney is an appropriate point to honour the great Irish poet's major contribution to classical reception in modern poetry. This is the first volume to be wholly dedicated to this perspective on Heaney's work, focusing primarily on his fascination with Greek drama and myth and his interest in Latin poetry.
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Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeared in the past, this volume is the first to be wholly dedicated to this perspective on his work. Comprising literary criticism by scholars of both classical reception and contemporary literature in English, it includes contributions from critics who are also poets, as well as from theatre practitioners on their interpretations and productions of Heaney's versions of Greek drama; well-known names are joined by early-career contributors, and friends and collaborators of Heaney sit alongside those who admired him from afar.
The papers focus on two main areas: Heaney's fascination with Greek drama and myth - shown primarily in his two Sophoclean versions, but also in his engagement in other poems with Hesiod, with Aeschylus' Agamemnon, and with myths such as that of Antaeus - and his interest in Latin poetry, primarily that of Virgil but also that of Horace; a version of an Horatian ode was famously the vehicle for Heaney's comment on the events of 11 September 2001 in 'Anything Can Happen' (District and Circle, 2006). Although a number of the contributions cover similar material, they do so from distinctively different angles: for example, Heaney's interest in Virgil is linked with the traditions of Irish poetry, his capacity as a translator, and his annotations in his own text of a standard translation, as well as being investigated in its long development over his poetic career, while his Greek dramas are considered as verbal poetry, as comments on Irish politics, and as stage-plays with concomitant issues of production and interpretation. Heaney's posthumous translation of Virgil's Aeneid VI (2016) comes in for considerable attention, and this will be the first volume to study this major work from several angles.
The first full examination of the Irish poet's rich contribution to the field of classical reception ... This rich volume provides an excellent handbook for the teaching of Heaney's classical receptions, and a welcome stimulus for further research.
Table of Contents:
Frontmatter
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction
Boustrophedon between Hellas and Home
Antaeus on the Move
Heaney and Hesiod
Mycenae Lookout' and the Example of Aeschylus
A Door into the Dark: Staging The Burial at Thebes
Ancient Greek Sailors with Twentieth-Century Metaphors (and Pan-Chronic Trousers): Directing Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy
Speaking Truth to Power: Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Thebes and the Poetry of Redress
Seamus Heaney: An Irish Poet Mines the Classics
Heaney, Yeats, and the Language of Pastoral
Weird Brightness' and the Riverbank: Seamus Heaney, Virgil, and the Need for Translation
Heaney and Virgil's Underworld Journey
The Forewarned Journey Back': Katabasis as Nostos in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Paving and Pencilling: Heaney's Inscriptions in J. W. Mackail's Translation of the Aeneid
Heaney as Translator: Virgil and Horace
Epilogue: Heaney's Classical Ground
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index of Works of Seamus Heaney Cited
Index of Classical Works Cited
General Index
