Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry

by John Dennison

Book Overview

Seamus Heaney's prose poetics return repeatedly to the adequacy of poetry, its ameliorative, restorative response to the violence of public historical life. It is a curiously equivocal ideal, and as such most clearly demonstrates the intellectual origins, the humanist character, and the inherent strains of these poetics, the work of one of the world's leading poet-critics of the last thirty years. Seamus Heaney and the Adequacy of Poetry is the first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198739192
• ISBN13: 9780198739197
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"