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Poetry and peace : Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland
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Poetry and peace : Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland / Richard Rankin Russell.
ISBN
9780268040314 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0268040311 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.
Physical Description
xiv, 389 p. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 05, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Northern Irish poetry, imagination, and ethics
Laying the foundations: the Belfast Group and Michael Longley's conciliatory cultural work
Lighting out for the unknown territory: Longley's No continuing city
Longley's poetry of war and peace
Fragility and ceremony: Longley's pastorals, holocaust elegies and Asian miniatures
"To make myself an echo chamber": Seamus Heaney's auditory imagination
The road to Derry, Wintering out and North: Northern dialects, Northern violence
Field work through The haw lantern: burrowing inward, looking outward
Redressing reality: seeing things through district and circle
Coda: poetry and the Northern Irish peace process.
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