The Redress of Poetry

by Heaney, Seamus

• ISBN13: 9780374524883
• ISBN10: 0374524882
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-11-01
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Summary

Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential, a motion of the soul." Throughout this collection, Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of a poetic order.

Author Biography

Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in Northern Ireland. His award-winning books of poetry include The Haw Lantern, Seeing Things, and The Spirit Level. A resident of Dublin, he has taught at Oxford and Harvard.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
The Redress of Poetry	p. 1
Extending the Alphabet: On Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander'	p. 17
Orpheus in Ireland: On Brian Merriman's The Midnight Court	p. 38
John Clare's Prog	p. 63
Speranza in Reading: On 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'	p. 83
A Torchlight Procession of One: On Hugh MacDiarmid	p. 103
Dylan the Durable?: On Dylan Thomas	p. 124
Joy or Night: Last Things in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Philip Larkin	p. 146
Counting to a Hundred: On Elizabeth Bishop	p. 164
Frontiers of Writing	p. 186
Notes	p. 204
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