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Seamus Heaney, widely considered the most gifted living poet in Ireland and
Britain, is the first Irish poet since Yeats to gain an international
reputation. In this study, Henry Hart discusses his poems, his creative and
personal situations, and his assimilation of contemporary literary theory. From
Heaney's Ulster background, to poetic influences as diverse as Dante and
Wordsworth, Yeats and Bly, Hart offers lucid insights. Hart argues that the best way into Heaney's poetic world is to seek to
understand him - as with Blake and Yeats - in terms of oppositions and
conflicts, progressions and syntheses. At the root of all his work is a
multifaceted argument with himself, with others, with sectarian Northern
Ireland, with his Anglo-Irish heritage, with his Roman Catholicism, and with
his Nationalist upbringing on a farm in County Derry. For each volume of poems, from "Door into the Dark" to "The Haw Lantern",
Hart identifies and works with a specific problems in the text as he also
developed its intellectual and creative implications. He covers aspects as
diverse as Heaney's incorporation of antipastoral attitudes in his poems, his
fascination with how etymology recapitulates ancient and modern history, and
his use of myth, history and apocalypticism in "North". Placing his trust in
art's ability to confront conflicts between freedom and responsibility, between
private craft and public involvement, Heaney is shown nontheless to chastise
himself for failing to have a greater impact on the situation he left behind
him in Northern Ireland. Hart explores how Heaney communicates a political
urgency lacking in much contemporary poetry. This study discusses Seamus Heaney's poems, his creative and personal
situations, and his assimilation of contemporary literary theory. From Heaney's
Ulster background, to poetic influences as diverse as Dante and Wordsworth,
Yeats and Bly, the text offers lucid insights.
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