Seamus Heaney

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Ashby Bland Crowder, Jason David Hall

   Pages 1-8

3. Seamus Heaney and the Modern Irish Elegy

   • Stephen Regan

   Pages 9-25

4. Poems without Frontiers: Poetic Reception and Political Possibility in the Work of Seamus Heaney

   • Richard Rankin Russell

   Pages 26-41

5. ‘A Meaning Made of Trees’: The Unwriting of a Symbol

   • Colleen McKenna

   Pages 42-58

6. Reading Heaney Reading

   • Sidney Burris

   Pages 59-73

7. Heaney and the Functions of Prose

   • Michael Baron

   Pages 74-91

8. The ‘Upward Waft’: The Influence of Frost and Eliot on Heaney’s Later Phase

   • Daniel W. Ross

   Pages 92-102

9. The Way Via Warsaw: Seamus Heaney and Post-War Polish Poets

   • Jerzy Jarniewicz

   Pages 103-120

10. The Cure at Troy: Sophocles or Heaney?

    • Paul Turner

    Pages 121-135

11. Putting a Bawn into Beowulf

    • Alison Finlay

    Pages 136-154

12. Remember Everything: Things Past in Station Island

    • Joseph Brooker

    Pages 155-171

13. ‘The cure by poetry that cannot be coerced’: Text, Canon and Context in Seamus Heaney’s Electric Light

    • Ruben Moi

    Pages 172-188

14. Literary Allusions, Appropriations and Assimilations

    • Barbara Hardy

    Pages 189-209

15. Back Matter

    Pages 210-214

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This volume of twelve essays aims to comprehensively represent the abundance and variety of both Heaney's writing and scholarship on Heaney's writing. Attention is given not only to his poetry but also to his translations and his prose. The essays foreground his internationalism and the complementary international interest in his writing.

• George Eliot
• poem
• poet
• poetry
• prose
• British and Irish Literature

MICHAEL BARON Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK JOSEPH BROOKER Teaches Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK SIDNEY BURRIS Professor of English, University of Arkansas, USA and Director of the Fulbright College Honors Program ALISON FINLAY Teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK BARBARA HARDY Professor Emerita, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK JERZY JARNIEWICZ Professor in the Department of Literature, University of Lodz, Poland COLLEEN MCKENNA Member of the faculty at University College, London, UK RUBEN MOI Head of Department of English, Harstad College, Norway STEPHEN REGAN Professor of English, University of Durham, UK RICHARD RANKIN RUSSELL Assistant Professor of English, Baylor University, USA DANIEL W. ROSS Professor of English at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia, USA PAUL TURNER Formerly University Lecturer in the English Faculty, Oxford University, UK

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