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S E A M U S H E A N E Y ’S R E G IO N S Richard Rankin Russell Russell-00FM_Layout 1 5/8/14 4:41 PM Page i SEAMUS HEANEY’S REGIONS Russell-00FM_Layout 1 5/8/14 4:41 PM Page ii Russell-00FM_Layout 1 5/8/14 4:41 PM Page iii S E A M U S H E A N E Y ’S R E G IO N S Richard Rankin Russell University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana Russell front cover and epg iv_Layout 1 5/28/14 11:07 AM Page iv Copyright © 2014 by University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 www.undpress.nd.edu All Rights Reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Russell, Richard Rankin. Seamus Heaney’s Regions / Richard Rankin Russell. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-268-04036-9 (paperback) — ISBN 0-268-04036-2 (paper) — ISBN 978-0-268-09181-1 (e-book) 1. Heaney, Seamus, 1939–2013—Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. PR6058.E2Z866 2014 821'.914—dc23 2014002684 ∞ The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Russell-00FM_Layout 1 5/8/14 4:41 PM Page v To my son, Aidan Samuel Russell, whose playful joy amazes and delights me. Russell-00FM_Layout 1 5/8/14 4:41 PM Page vi Russell-00FM_Layout 1 5/8/14 4:41 PM Page vii Contents List of Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 One The Development of Northern Irish Regionalism 41 Two Recording Bigotry and Imagining a New Province: Heaney and BBC Northern Ireland Radio, 1968– 73 66 Three Heaney’s Essays on Regional Writers: The 1970s 101 Four Wounds and Fire: Northern Ireland in Heaney’s 1970s Poetry 130 Five Darkness Visible: Irish Catholicism, the American Civil Rights Movement, and the Blackness of “Strange Fruit” 162 Six Border Crossings: Heaney’s Prose Poems in Stations 187 Seven Joyce, Burns, and Holub: Heaney’s Independent Regionalism in An Open Letter 212 Eight Affirming and Transcending Regionalism: Joyce, Dante, Eliot, and the Tercet Formin Station Island andThe Haw Lantern 240 Nine The Northern Irish Context and Owen and Yeats Intertexts in The Cure at Troy 279 Ten Guttural and Global: Heaney’s Regionalism after 1990 310 Russell-00FM_Layout 1 5/8/14 4:41 PM Page viii viii Contents Eleven “My Ship of Genius Now Shakes Out Her Sail”: The Spirit Region and the Tercet in Seeing Things and Human Chain 356 Afterword. Visiting the Dead and Welcoming Newborns: Human Chainand Heaney’s Three Regions 393 Notes 405 Bibliography 461 Index 487 Russell-00FM_Layout 1 5/8/14 4:41 PM Page ix Abbreviations The following abbreviations are used in the text and notes for books by Heaney that are frequently cited. Full publication information is given in the bibliography. AOL An Open Letter CP Crediting Poetry CT The Cure at Troy DC District and Circle DD Door into the Dark DN Death of a Naturalist EL Electric Light FW Field Work HC Human Chain HL The Haw Lantern N North OG Opened Ground S Stations SI Station Island SL The Spirit Level SS Stepping Stones ST Seeing Things WO Wintering Out ix
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