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Seamus Heaney Criticism

Seamus Heaney, a distinguished Northern Irish poet and Nobel laureate, is celebrated for his evocative depiction of both the Irish landscape and its complex cultural identity. Renowned as one of the foremost poets since W.B. Yeats, Heaney explores the poet's societal role while addressing political and cultural issues inherent in Irish history. His work is noted for its sensuous language, vivid nature imagery, and profound metaphors. Heaney's literary journey is marked by a profound engagement with the political tensions of Northern Ireland and themes of identity and self-discovery, elements present from his early collections like Death of a Naturalist and Door into the Dark, which evoke rural life through a blend of personal and mythic elements.

Contents

  • Principal Works
  • Heaney, Seamus (Vol. 171)
    • A Poetic Conscience
    • Tracing Seamus Heaney
    • The Parish and the Dream: Heaney and America, 1969-1987
    • Seamus Heaney's ‘Middle Voice.’
    • The Great Irish Elk: Seamus Heaney's Personal Helicon
    • Catching the Heart Off Guard: The Generous Vision of Seamus Heaney
    • The Redress of Poetry
    • Review of The Spirit Level
    • Powers of Earth and Visions of Air
    • The State of Poetry
    • Poetry Roundup
    • Seeing and Believing
    • Opened Ground
    • Measures of a Poet
    • Beowulf for the Big-Voiced Scullions
    • Scullionspeak
    • This Old Dragon Still Breathes Fire
    • Following Seamus Heaney's ‘Follower’: Toward a Performative Criticism
    • Seamus Heaney's Beowulf
    • Review of Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney
    • ‘Customary Rhythms’: Seamus Heaney and the Rite of Poetry
    • A Scratchy Woollen Jumper That Doesn't Quite Fit
    • The Mother Tongue
    • Like Peat-Smoke Mulling
    • Review of Electric Light
    • Review of Electric Light
    • A Force for Good
  • Heaney, Seamus (Vol. 5)
  • Heaney, Seamus (Vol. 7)
  • Heaney, Seamus (Vol. 91)
  • Heaney, Seamus (Vol. 14)
    • Seamus Heaney's Third Book of Poems
    • More Poetry Matters
    • World Literature in Review: 'North'
    • The Nation of Poets
    • 'Hoarder of Common Ground': Tradition and Ritual in Seamus Heaney's Poetry
    • Landscape with Poems
    • The Music of What Happens
    • Poets Who Have Learned Their Trades: 'Field Work'
  • Heaney, Seamus (Justin)
    • Four New Voices: Poets of the Present
    • Seamus Heaney
    • The Recognition of the Savage God: Poetry in Britain Today
    • The Music of What Happens
    • Seamus Heaney's: 'Salvation in Surrender'
    • Seamus Heaney: The Ground Possessed
    • The Voice of Kinship
    • A Fine Way with the Language
    • Seamus Heaney: Poetry and Power
    • The Hiding Places of Power
    • A Poet's Prose
    • The Prose of an Irish Poet
    • Seamus Heaney: Peat, Politics and Poetry
    • Matters of Ireland: Recent Irish Poetry
    • Digs
  • Heaney, Seamus
    • Description as Poetry
    • A Soft Grip on the Sick Place: The Bogland Poetry of Seamus Heaney
    • Beginnings
    • Poetry and Terror
    • Field Work
    • The Matter of Ireland and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
    • Crossed Pieties
    • A review of Station Island
    • An interview with Seamus Heaney
    • Seamus Heaney's Poetry of Meditation: Door into the Dark
    • Second Thoughts
    • An interview with Seamus Heaney
    • Seamus Heaney's Anxiety of Trust in Field Work
    • Heaney and the Pastoral Persuasion
    • A review of Seeing Things
    • Seeing Things in a Jungian Perspective: Archetypal Elements in Seamus Heaney's Recent Poetry
  • Further Reading