| #192384 in Books | imusti | 1985-01-01 | 1985-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .31 x.1 x5.13l,.24 | File type: PDF | 73 pages | Faber & Faber||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Seamus Heaney, "North"|By Ashok Karra|Heaney describes this volume of poetry later as too tightly written, contrasting it with his "Squarings" sequence. It is not an idle contrast: you will see the difference immediately.
I imagine you'll see something else, too. This poetry tries. It tries to be important, to speak the past & present, artifact & object, heritage & p||“[Heaney's] awareness of a wider social world . . . reaches its culmination in North (1975), a deservedly famous volume that [Helen] Vendler regards as 'one of the crucial poetic interventions of the 20th century,' ranking with Eliot's Prufrock
With this collection, first published in 1975, Heaney located a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland--its people, history, and landscape--and which gave his poems direction, cohesion, and cumulative power. In North, the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, and the idea of the north allows the poet to contemplate the violence on his home ground in relation to memories of ...
You easily download any file type for your device.North: Poems | Seamus Heaney. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
