Electric Light (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Seamus Heaney
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Poetry or poets, Flowers, Rivers or waterways, Childbirth, Ireland or Irish people, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays, Light, Shepherds, Summer, Seasons, Coffins
Electric Light shows Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney in masterful poetic form. The collection is, first of all, various; among the many poetic forms he explores are lyric, eclogue, elegy, epigram, and sonnet. Heaney is a traditional poet and consistently uses and revises traditional poetic genres; he also uses meter and, at times, rhyme in these poems. There is no overriding theme in the book, but it does explore a number of themes that Heaney has dealt with before: the rural landscape, Irish history, and poetry. This book is, perhaps, the fullest in exploring and using poetic...
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