Seamus Heaney, 1939-2013

Autores/as

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v15i0.3585

Resumen

Seamus Heaney explores the historical and cultural origins of his native territory. His poems link to its landscape in loving recreations of activities
and customs and in troubled assessment of sectarian divisions. Poetry becomes a means of redressing wrongs, of balancing opposing tensions. The question of the poet’s responsibility and of the value of poetry itself becomes central. Ultimately he must be true to himself, have freedom to express himself, and live in the republic of his own conscience.

Keywords: Seamus Heaney; contemporary Irish poetry; poet’s responsibility.

Biografía del autor/a

  • Maurice Harmon, University College Dublin
    Maurice Harmon, academic, scholar and poet, worked at  University College Dublin for many years. He wrote critical studies of several Irish writers including Sean O’Faolain, Austin Clarke and Thomas Kinsella. His poetry collections include When Love Is Not Enough. New and Selected Poems, 2010 and Loose Connections, 2012.

Referencias

Buile Suibhne. Translated with Introduction and Notes by James O’Keffe. Dublin: Irish Texts Society, 1913; 1984.

Glob, P.V., The Bog People. Trans. Rupert Bruce-Mitford. London: Faber & Faber, 1969.

Harmon, Maurice. “We pine for ceremony’’: Ritual and Reality in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (1965- 1975)’. Studies in Seamus Heaney, ed. Jacqueline Genet (Centre de publications de l’Université de Caen, 1987): 47-64; rpt. in Seamus Heaney: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Elmer Andrews. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992.

______. “Seamus Heaney and the Gentle Flame”. Irish Writers and their Creative Process. Eds Jacqueline Genet and Wynne Hellegouarch. Gerrard’s Cross, Colin Smythe, 1996.

______. “Spaten und Wasserwaage: Seamus Heaney’s suche nach Herkunft und Gleichgewicht”. Seamus Heaney Tod eines Naturforschers, Nobel Preis fűr Literatur, 1995. Lachen: Coron Verlag, 1996. 49-67.

Heaney, Seamus, Death of a Naturalist. London: Faber & Faber, 1966.

______. Door into the Dark. London: Faber & Faber, 1969.

______. Wintering Out. London: Faber & Faber, 1972.

______. North. London: Faber & Faber, 1975.

______. Field Work. London: Faber & Faber, 1979.

______. Preoccupations Selected Prose 1968-1978. London: Faber & Faber. 1980.

______. “Introduction”, Sweeney Astray A version from the Irish. Derry: A Field Day Publication, 1983.

______. Station Island. London: Faber & Faber, 1984.

______. The Haw Lantern. London: Faber & Faber, 1987.

______. The Government of the Tongue. London: Faber & Faber, 1988.

______. Selected Poems 1966-1978. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.

______. Seeing Things. London: Faber & Faber, 1991.

______. The Redress of Poetry. Oxford Lectures. London: Faber & Faber, 1995.

______. The Spirit Level. London: Faber & Faber, 1996.

______. Electric Light. London: Faber & Faber, 2001.

______. District and Circle. London: Faber & Faber, 2006.

______. Human Chain. London: Faber & Faber, 2010.

Njal’s Saga. Translated with an Introduction by Magnus Magbusson and Hermann Pάlsson. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penquin, 1960.

Descargas

Publicado

2013-11-17

Número

Sección

A Tribute to Seamus Heaney

Cómo citar