The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (653 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521547555 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 262 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Bernard O'Donoghue is Fellow of Wadham College and University Lecturer in English at the University of Oxford.
The essays further explore the central themes of his poetry, his relations with other writers, and his prose writing. Designed for students, this volume will also have much to interest and inform the general reader and admirer of Heaney's unique poetic voice.. Its distinguished contributors offer detailed readings of all his major publications, in poetry, prose and translation. This Companion gives an up-to-date overview of his career thus far, and of his reception in Ireland, England and around the world. Since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, he has come to be considered one of the most important English language poets in the world. 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 Elect
The Greatest living Irish poet and essayist, and an Oxford reader, as viewed from Cambridge The introduction (by editor and contributor, poet Bernard O'Donoghue) to this remarkably comprehensive (for being under three hundred pages, including Index and Guide to Further Reading) study contains mention of Mr. Heaney's inclusion in the 1982 edition of the Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry without furth
H Kealy, Immacula University, Choice . "O'Donoghue has gathered an impressive collection of essays in appreciation of the poetic and prose work of Seamus HeaneyRecommended." -M