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Seamus Heaney This page intentionally left blank Seamus Heaney Poet, Critic, Translator Edited by Ashby Bland Crowder and Jason David Hall Editorial matter,selection and introduction © Ashby Bland Crowder and Jason David Hall2007 Individual chapters © contributors 2007 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2007 978-0-230-00342-2 All rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988,or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency,90 Tottenham Court Road,London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2007 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue,New York,N.Y.10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St.Martin’s Press,LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States,United Kingdom and other countries.Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-28111-4 ISBN 978-0-230-20626-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230206267 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources.Logging,pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Seamus Heaney :poet,critic,translator / edited by Ashby Bland Crowder and Jason David Hall. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1.Heaney,Seamus,1939 – Criticism and interpretation. I.Crowder,A.B.II.Hall,Jason David,1975– PR6058.E2Z882 2007 821(cid:2).914—dc22 2006052851 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 To the memory of Paul Turner (1917–2005) ‘And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche.’ This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements ix Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 Ashby Bland Crowder and Jason David Hall 1 Seamus Heaney and the Modern Irish Elegy 9 Stephen Regan 2 Poems without Frontiers: Poetic Reception and Political Possibility in the Work of Seamus Heaney 26 Richard Rankin Russell 3 ‘A Meaning Made of Trees’: The Unwriting of a Symbol 42 Colleen McKenna 4 Reading Heaney Reading 59 Sidney Burris 5 Heaney and the Functions of Prose 74 Michael Baron 6 The ‘Upward Waft’: The Influence of Frost and Eliot on Heaney’s Later Phase 92 Daniel W. Ross 7 The Way Via Warsaw: Seamus Heaney and Post-War Polish Poets 103 Jerzy Jarniewicz 8 The Cure at Troy: Sophocles or Heaney? 121 Paul Turner 9 Putting a Bawn into Beowulf 136 Alison Finlay 10 Remember Everything: Things Past in Station Island 155 Joseph Brooker vii viii Contents 11 ‘The cure by poetry that cannot be coerced’: Text, Canon and Context in Seamus Heaney’s Electric Light 172 Ruben Moi 12 Literary Allusions, Appropriations and Assimilations 189 Barbara Hardy Index 210 Acknowledgements The editors wish to express their gratitude for the good help provided by Lynn Crowder, Gina Goad, Marquita Little, Kelly Melhorn and KeeleyMurray. ix
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