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Poetry & peace : Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland

Russell, Richard Rankin

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Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney's lives and careers have been intertwined since the 1960s, when they participated in the Belfast Group of creative writers and later edited the literary journal Northern Review. In Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland, Richard Rankin Russell explores Longley's and Heaney's poetic fidelity to the imagination in the midst of the war in Northern Ireland and their creation, through poetry, of a powerful cultural and sacred space. This space, Russell argues, has contributed to cultural and religious dialog and thus helped enable reconciliation after the years of the Troubles. The first chapter examines the influence of the Belfast Group on Longley and Heaney's shared aesthetic of poetry. Successive chapters analyze major works of both poets. Russell offers close readings of poems in the context of the poets' cultural and political concerns for the province. He concludes by showing how thoroughly their poetic language has entered the cultural, educational, and political discourse of contemporary Northern Ireland as it pursues the process of peace.

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Subject: Longley, Michael, 1939- Criticism and interpretation. / Longley, Michael, 1939- Aesthetics. / Heaney, Seamus, 1939- Criticism and interpretation. / Heaney, Seamus, 1939- Aesthetics. / Belfast Group. / Political violence in literature. / Poets, Irish 20th century Political and social views. / Reconciliation Northern Ireland. / Northern Ireland In literature.
• ISBN: 9780268040314, 0268040311

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR6062.O515 Z85 2010	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE