Internecine violence and sectarianism, unfortunately, represent an encumbering yoke from which Northern Ireland has been struggling to liberate itself for the past fifty years (since the Troubles began in the late 60s). Seamus Heaney’s poetry is no exception. This paper focuses on some of his poems dealing with these issues, especially those written in the years following the first cease-fire in Northern Ireland (1994), which, by revisiting the past, foresaw a new future for Ireland. This move backwards to reach forwards is practised at different levels. Not only does Heaney look back in history (ancient Greece, for example) to rediscover new horizons to the impasse in Northern Ireland, but he also revisits his own poems and personal experi...
Seamus Heaney's prose poetics return repeatedly to the adequacy of poetry, its ameliorative, restora...
For my senior integrative exercise, I analyzed the portrayal of Irish national identity and consciou...
History and literature complement each other. The study of history can be beneficial to understandin...
Internecine violence and sectarianism, unfortunately, represent an encumbering yoke from which North...
Seamus Heaney explores the historical and cultural origins of his native territory. His poems link t...
The culture someone grows up in helps to define that person, for better or for worse. This culture s...
Seamus Heaney and the Poetic(s) of Violence reconsiders the key importance of violence as an aesthet...
Richard Murphy, an Irish poet, has described Seamus Heaney as “the poet who has shown the finest art...
Poetry for Seamus Heaney has an ‘archaeological’ function. Much of Heaney’s poetry engages with the ...
This paper is no more than a preliminary survey of the poetry of Seamus Heaney, the leading poet of ...
(from the publishers site) In Seamus Heaney’s Regions, Richard Rankin Russell argues that Heaney’s r...
This paper proposes that at a time when Northern Ireland increasingly descended into civil strife an...
Heaney\u27s poetry has grown and changed since the publication of his first collection of poetry, De...
Seamus Heaney's need to declare poetic independence comes primarily from his Ulster heritage, an Iri...
This thesis deals with what it means to be a ‘public’ poet in national and transnational contex...
Seamus Heaney's prose poetics return repeatedly to the adequacy of poetry, its ameliorative, restora...
For my senior integrative exercise, I analyzed the portrayal of Irish national identity and consciou...
History and literature complement each other. The study of history can be beneficial to understandin...
Internecine violence and sectarianism, unfortunately, represent an encumbering yoke from which North...
Seamus Heaney explores the historical and cultural origins of his native territory. His poems link t...
The culture someone grows up in helps to define that person, for better or for worse. This culture s...
Seamus Heaney and the Poetic(s) of Violence reconsiders the key importance of violence as an aesthet...
Richard Murphy, an Irish poet, has described Seamus Heaney as “the poet who has shown the finest art...
Poetry for Seamus Heaney has an ‘archaeological’ function. Much of Heaney’s poetry engages with the ...
This paper is no more than a preliminary survey of the poetry of Seamus Heaney, the leading poet of ...
(from the publishers site) In Seamus Heaney’s Regions, Richard Rankin Russell argues that Heaney’s r...
This paper proposes that at a time when Northern Ireland increasingly descended into civil strife an...
Heaney\u27s poetry has grown and changed since the publication of his first collection of poetry, De...
Seamus Heaney's need to declare poetic independence comes primarily from his Ulster heritage, an Iri...
This thesis deals with what it means to be a ‘public’ poet in national and transnational contex...
Seamus Heaney's prose poetics return repeatedly to the adequacy of poetry, its ameliorative, restora...
For my senior integrative exercise, I analyzed the portrayal of Irish national identity and consciou...
History and literature complement each other. The study of history can be beneficial to understandin...