North
by:
Seamus Heaney (author)
With this collection, first published in 1975, Heaney located a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland--its people, history, and landscape--and which gave his poems direction, cohesion, and cumulative power. In North, the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from...
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With this collection, first published in 1975, Heaney located a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland--its people, history, and landscape--and which gave his poems direction, cohesion, and cumulative power. In North, the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, and the idea of the north allows the poet to contemplate the violence on his home ground in relation to memories of the Scandinavian and English invasions which have marked Irish history so indelibly.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571108138 (057110813X)
Publish date: January 1st 1985
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 73
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Irish Literature,
College,
Ireland,
Poetry,
Textbooks
After a nice tribute to his farming mother and his native countryside, very much in the vein of previous books, Heaney’s poetry takes a sharp turn as he explores the history behind this rural idyll, starting with the uncovering of a Viking ship used for burial, and then dealing in a sequence of poem...
After a nice tribute to his farming mother and his native countryside, very much in the vein of previous books, Heaney’s poetry takes a sharp turn as he explores the history behind this rural idyll, starting with the uncovering of a Viking ship used for burial, and then dealing in a sequence of poem...
I heard Heaney read some of these poems once. They're better aloud. Of course the poems are good on paper, too, but if the book could read aloud it would get 4 or 5 stars.
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