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- catalog abstract "These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress spiritual balance and to function as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces in the world. He proceeds to explore how this 'redress' manifests itself in a diverse range of poems and poets, including Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander', 'The Midnight Court' by the eighteenth-century Irish poet Brian Merriman, John Clare's vernacular writing and Oscar Wilde's 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'. Several twentieth-century poets are also discussed - W. B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop and others - and the whole book constitutes a vivid proof of the claim that 'poetry is strong enough to help'. Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential, a motion of the soul." Throughout this collection, Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of a poetic order.".
- catalog contributor b8703959.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential, a motion of the soul." Throughout this collection, Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of a poetic order.".
- catalog description "The redress of poetry -- Extending the alphabet : on Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander' -- Orpheus in Ireland : on Brian Merriman's The midnight court -- John Clare's Prog -- Speranza in Reading : on 'The ballad of Reading Gaol' -- A torchlight procession of one : on Hugh MacDiarmid -- Dylan the durable? : on Dylan Thomas -- Joy or night : last things in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Philip Larkin -- Counting to a hundred : on Elizabeth Bishop -- Frontiers of writing.".
- catalog description "These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress spiritual balance and to function as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces in the world. He proceeds to explore how this 'redress' manifests itself in a diverse range of poems and poets, including Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander', 'The Midnight Court' by the eighteenth-century Irish poet Brian Merriman, John Clare's vernacular writing and Oscar Wilde's 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'. Several twentieth-century poets are also discussed - W. B. Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop and others - and the whole book constitutes a vivid proof of the claim that 'poetry is strong enough to help'.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 211 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0374248532 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,".
- catalog subject "821.009 20".
- catalog subject "American poetry History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English poetry History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English poetry Irish authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR503 .H38 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "The redress of poetry -- Extending the alphabet : on Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander' -- Orpheus in Ireland : on Brian Merriman's The midnight court -- John Clare's Prog -- Speranza in Reading : on 'The ballad of Reading Gaol' -- A torchlight procession of one : on Hugh MacDiarmid -- Dylan the durable? : on Dylan Thomas -- Joy or night : last things in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Philip Larkin -- Counting to a hundred : on Elizabeth Bishop -- Frontiers of writing.".
- catalog title "The redress of poetry / Seamus Heaney.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".