UID:
almahu_9949434917502882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 211 pages) :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9781003268086
,
1003268080
,
9781000816532
,
1000816532
,
9781000816648
,
1000816648
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in Irish literature
Content:
"Seamus Heaney's American Odyssey describes, with a new archive of correspondence, interviews, and working drafts, the some forty years that Seamus Heaney spent in the U.S. as teacher, as lecturer, as friend and colleague, and as an active poet on the reading circuit. It is anchored by Heaney's appointments at Berkeley and Harvard, but it also follows Heaney's readings "on the road" at three important points in his career. It argues that Heaney was initially receptive to American poetry and culture while his career was still plastic, but as he developed more assurance and fame, he became much more critical of America as a superpower, especially in the military reaction to 9/11. This study emphasizes "the heard Heaney" as much as the "writerly Heaney" by listening in on key poetry readings at different times and to recorded but unpublished lectures on American and British poets at Harvard. It includes accounts by his creative writing students, aspiring poets, who testify to his mentoring as well modeling for them how one can be "a poet in the world" as he was most strikingly"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: O'Shea, Edward. Seamus Heaney's American odyssey New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 ISBN 9781032213712
Language:
English
Keywords:
Biographies.
;
Literary criticism.
;
Electronic books.
;
Literary criticism.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003268086
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003268086
