Seamus Heaney And Medieval Poetry

Download or read book Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry written by Conor McCarthy and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2008 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seamus Heaney's engagement with medieval literature constitutes a significant body of work by a major poet including a landmark translation of "Beowulf". This title examines both Heaney's direct translations and his adaptation of medieval material in his original poems.

Download or read book Sweeney Astray written by Seamus Heaney and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. The poetry spoken by the mad king, exiled to the trees and the slopes, is among the richest and most immediately appealing in the whole canon of Gaelic literature. Sweeney Astray not only restores to us a work of historical and literary importance but offers the genius of one of our greatest living poets to reinforce its claims on the reader of contemporary literature.

Download or read book Beowulf written by Seamus Heaney and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother.

Download or read book Station Island written by Seamus Heaney and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded by a section of shorter lyrics and leads into a third group of poems in which the poet's voice is at one with the voice of the legendary mad King Sweeney. 'Surpasses even what one might reasonably expect from this magnificently gifted poet.' John Carey, Sunday Times

Download or read book Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of Poetry written by Rachel Falconer and published by EUP. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of Heaney's dialogue with Virgil, one of Seamus Heaney's major literary exemplars.

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney written by Bernard O'Donoghue and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date overview of Heaney's career thus far, with detailed readings of all his major publications.

Download or read book Poetry and Peace written by Richard Rankin Russell and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry and Peace explores Longley's and Heaney's poetic fidelity to the imagination and their creation, through poetry, of a powerful cultural and sacred space.