{"product_id":"the-soul-exceeds-its-circumstances-the-later-poetry-of-seamus-heaney-9780268100209","title":"The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances: The Later Poetry of Seamus Heaney","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Soul Exceeds its Circumstances\u003c\/i\u003e brings together sixteen of the most prominent scholars who have written on Seamus Heaney to examine the Nobel Prize winner's later poetry from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives. While a great deal of attention has been devoted to Heaney's early and middle poems--the Bog Poems in particular--this book focuses on the poetry collected in Heaney's \u003ci\u003eSeeing Things\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Level\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003eElectric Light\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eDistrict and Circle\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), and \u003ci\u003eHuman Chain\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) as a thematically connected set of writings. The starting point of the essays in this collection is that these later poems can be grouped in terms of style, theme, approach, and intertextuality. They develop themes that were apparent in Heaney's earlier work, but they also break with these themes and address issues that are radically different from those of the earlier collections. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays are divided into five sections, focusing on ideas of death, the later style, translation and transnational poetics, luminous things and gifts, and usual and unusual spaces. A number of the contributors see Heaney as stressing the literary over the actual and as always looking at the interstices and positions of liminality and complexity. His use of literary references in his later poetry exemplifies his search for literary avatars against whom he can test his own ideas and with whom he can enter into an aesthetic and ethical dialogue. The essayists cover a great deal of Heaney's debts to classical and modern literature--in the original languages and in translations--and demonstrate the degree to which the streets on which Heaney walked and wrote were two-way: he was influenced by Virgil, Petrarch, Milosz, Wordsworth, Keats, Rilke, and others and, in turn, had an impact on contemporary poets. This remarkable collection will appeal to scholars and literary critics, undergraduates as well as graduate students, and to the many general readers of Heaney's poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eugene O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 418\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268100209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEugene O'Brien is senior lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature and director of the Institute for Irish Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including\u003ci\u003e Seamus Heaney as Aesthetic Thinker: A Study of the Prose\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSeamus Heaney: Creating Irelands of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40767119884403,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":74.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_9bfb5caf-67b3-4340-ad20-7f362225800c.jpg?v=1679578101","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-soul-exceeds-its-circumstances-the-later-poetry-of-seamus-heaney-9780268100209","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}