Search Results for Seamus Heaney

...Richard Rankin Russell Copyright © Hofstra University 2008 Seamus Heaneys Regionalism Richard Rankin Russell Each person in Ulster lives first in the Ulster of the actual pres­ ent, and then in one or other Ulster of the mind. —Heaney (Place...

...John Boly Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 Following Seamus Heaney’s “Follower”: Toward a Performative Criticism J ohn Boly eaders of Seamus Heaney’s poetry may remember the scene in “Fol­ lower” when the father, hard at work...

...Stephen James Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 m Seamus Heaneys Sway Stephen James I n his essay “The Makings of a Music: Reflections on Wordsworth and Yeats,” Seamus Heaney considers Hazlitt’s account of a visit to Alfoxden in June 1798, when Wordsworth gave...

...Christopher Laverty This essay examines the influence of Elizabeth Bishop on Seamus Heaney’s poetics in the 1980s and 1990s as he became a global poet. She stands as a unique and overlooked exemplar in Heaney’s poetic pantheon. His reading of Bishop’s work, for all its limitations, nonetheless...

...Jeff Westover Castings: Monuments and Monumentality in Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Derek Walcott, and Seamus Heaney , by Rotella Guy , Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press , 2004 . 225 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 Not Marble nor...

... “narrative,” chapter 4 argues for a critical reframing of the postcolonial turn as a Cold War phenomenon; more specifically, it maintains that the rise of postcolonial theory informed the work and unduly amplified the international renown of Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott. Quinn’s argument...

... on changing, of course, but in the formal variety of the material that Falci discusses—including work by Maggie O’Sullivan, Seamus Heaney, Elizabeth Bishop, Jen Hadfield, John Ashbery, Roy Fisher, Rae Armantrout, Jorie Graham, Claudia Rankine, Layli Long Soldier, Tracy K. Smith, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Lisa...

...Karen M. Moloney Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 Molly Astray: Revisioning Ireland in Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney Karen M. Moloney n an influential review of Brian Friel’s Translations (1981), Seamus Heaney links the character Sarah to a “symbolic...

...-122 Boly,John. “Following Seamus Heaney’s ‘Follower’:Toward a Performative Criticism.” 46.3 (2000): 269-284 Brittain, Vera. See Badenhausen Brown, Richard DawsonYourThoughts Make Shape Like Snow’: Louis MacNeice on Stephen Spender.” 48.3 (2002): 292—323 Buchanan, Bradley W.“ Armed...

... creative output. Those doubts notwithstanding, I think there’s something important at stake linguistically as well as psychologically, in this early engagement of Plath’s with the lyric form. As Seamus Heaney’s posthumously published translation of Aeneid Book VI indicates, classroom translation...

.... Seamus Heaney’s early poem “At a Potato Digging,” for example, describes crowds of laborers following a “mechanical digger,” their bodies bowed in “fear and homage to the famine god,” the fruit of their labor “piled in pits” like history’s mass graves where potatoes look like “live skulls, blind-eyed...

... their successors have availed themselves of those rich resources? There is little or no mention in this book of writers like Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, the Christian W. H. Auden, the early Robert Lowell, Evelyn Waugh, Geoffrey Hill, or even parts of Seamus Heaney. I cannot...

... in terms of the maritime histories, sea migrations, and coastal ecologies that link it with the rest of the Irish island, the other British Isles, and the world. In the poems of Seamus Heaney, for example, coasts, marshlands, fishing, and seaward visions serve collectively as a means of disarming binarism...

... that nature involves itself in the course of human affairs. What the moon provisionally symbolizes has less to do with “clear desires and high aims” than with our failure to acknowledge our isolation in the sweep of time and space, and our refuge in beliefs that try to deny it. Seamus Heaney also...

... . 1991 . v . Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe . Harrison Tony . 2010a . “ The Inky Digit of Defiance ”. Arion 17 , no. 3 : 79 – 99 . Harrison Tony . 2010b . “ v .” YouTube . January 2 . www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPutBM7zfv8 . Heaney Seamus . 1995 . The Redress...

.... Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1979. 141-60. Heaney, Seamus. Electric Light. New York: Farrar, 2001. Hofmann, Michael. “Stare at the Monster.” Rev. of Collected Poems, by Ted Hughes. Poetry 183.5 (2004): 278-89. Hughes, Ted. Cave Birds: An Alchemical Cave Drama. NewYork:Viking, 1978. Collected...

... critic I’ve encountered who uses the term “proleptic ele­ gy,” discusses a version of the phenomenon in Seamus Heaney’s poems for his father. 5. From Dylan Thomas’s “I Have Longed to Move Away.” 6. The inspiration for this wording is Dylan Thomas’s antielegy “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire...

... Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Derek Walcott, and Seamus Heaney” (2004). 12. On Charmides in “Losing the Marbles,” criticism has been very scant. In the only accounts of Charmides’s presence that I have been able to discover, Evans Lansing Smith observes that the poem’s reconstructed ode...

....” 45.4 (1999): 511-33 118 INDEX Heaney, Seamus. See Booth Hemingway, Ernest. See Berman; Eby; Gaillard; Lamb; Willis Hite, Molly. “Optics and Autobiography in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye.” 41.2 (1995): 135-59 Hoberman, Ruth. “Masquing...

... encounter with the familiar compound ghost in Little Gidding and Seamus Heaney’s meeting with Joyce in Station Is­ land. In other words, Walcott proliferates the correspondences as a strat­ egy of mimicry, a proliferation that transforms imitation into invention by constructing new...