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Title: The Redress of Poetry by Seamus Heaney ISBN: 0374524882 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Collection of Essays on Poetry I have Ever Read
Comment: Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has compiled a collection of essays on poetry that are deeply insightful, filled with the kind of knowledge that only a master can articulate. Bishop, Yeats, Merriman, Thomas, and others are treated with deep thought, care, and honesty... Heaney is careful to acknowledge that his opinions are just that... his opinions... but he is someone who imparts so much knowledge of poetry, that his opinons would be the first I would seek out, regarding any confusions I may have regarding poetry.. This is a fabulous book! It is better than reading most poetry!
I recommend this book to everyone.
Rating: 5
Summary: Strong Enough To Help
Comment: The Redress of Poetry is a series of lectures given by Seamus Heaney at Oxford; in all of them, he examines poetry and how it can be strong enough to help the reader, to act as an equal force to the life lived by the reader. He looks at all kinds of poets - Dylan Thomas, Christopher Marlowe, Yeats, Wilde and Bishop - and of course talks about his own position as a Catholic from the Northern Ireland living in Dublin. In all the lectures Heaney is wonderfully informal and funny, while still solidly getting across how important and vital these writers are. The lecture on Thomas alone is a great lesson on writing and authenticity, and the last one, "Frontiers of Writing", makes a strong case that a nation is imagined by writers first - that language, poetry, opens up possibilities in nations as well as in people. Though he knows that words can't do everything, Heaney's affection for writing and writers is convincing. At his best, he made me want to go back to the poet and read more, and not many people can make me do that!
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Title: Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney ISBN: 0374526788 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (Pap) Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney ISBN: 0374523894 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 by Seamus Heaney ISBN: 0374154961 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 26 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987 by Seamus Heaney ISBN: 0374522200 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney ISBN: 0374525110 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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