The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: Essays, Articles, Reviews Contributor(s): Andrews, Elmer (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0231119275 ISBN-13: 9780231119276 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $31.68 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2000 Annotation: At last available in a single volume: comprehensive overviews and concise analyses of the key critical texts and approaches to the most-studied works of literature. By assembling extracts from essays, reviews, and articles, the columbia critical guides provide students with ready access to the most important secondary writings on a single text or pair of texts by a given writer. each volume: In this collection of critical responses to Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney's poetry, Elmer Andrews presents the debates surrounding the poet's work and popular appeal. The writings gathered in this columbia critical guide clarify and explore issues of cultural identity and nationality, as well as debates on the power of language and the function of verse. Beginning with Heaney's early collection, death of a naturalist, the guide reviews and contextualizes material on successive volumes (including 1996's the spirit level), so that students of Heaney's verse will find an accessible pathway through the most important critical writings on this major poet. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 821.914 |
LCCN: 99041368 |
Series: Columbia Critical Guides |
Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.19" W x 7.72" (0.46 lbs) 192 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Ireland - Ethnic Orientation - Irish |
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Publisher Description: In this collection of critical responses to Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney's poetry, Elmer Andrews presents the debates surrounding the poet's work and popular appeal. The writings gathered in this Columbia Critical Guide clarify and explore issues of cultural identity and nationality, as well as debates on the power of language and the function of verse. Beginning with Heaney's early collection, Death of a Naturalist, the guide reviews and contextualizes material on successive volumes (including 1996's The Spirit Level), so that students of Heaney's verse will find an accessible pathway through the most important critical writings on this major poet. |