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The redress of poetry de Seamus Heaney
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The redress of poetry (edició 1995)

de Seamus Heaney (Autor)

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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'.… (més)
Membre:Civitella
Títol:The redress of poetry
Autors:Seamus Heaney (Autor)
Informació:New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.
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Etiquetes:Civitella Library, Donated by Mark Strand, Irish Poetry, 20th Century, Collection of Poems, Nobel Laureate

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These are ten lectures reprinted in 1995 which were given by Heaney when he was Professor of poetry at Oxford between 1989 and 1994. Eight of the lectures/chapters concentrate on one or perhaps two poets and are top and tailed by two more general chapters; the first of which deals with the importance of poetry in cultural life and the second addresses issues around politics and political thought. They are all extremely well written and demonstrate Heaney’s knowledge and enthusiasm for his subject. They are full of insights and ideas, but never get too heavily involved in the mechanics (metre and structure) and so avoid being a dry; technical lesson that could take them out of the reach of the more general reader.

Heaney is careful to spell out what he means by redress, because his lectures examine two definitions of the word: the first and more obvious is to restore or re-establish poetry as an important cultural medium, but the second is to make a case for poetry in adjusting and/or correcting imbalances in the world. His main point is that poetry can go beyond other literature and art to provide a different and sometimes essential perspective. It can go beyond conventional bounds, it can touch heights that can amount to a spirituality that is both forcible and instructive. It can surprise in the way that at one moment it is unforeseeable and at the next indispensable and It should be both socially responsible and creatively free.

Heaney’s lectures occurred at a time when Northern Ireland was riven by political and religious upheaval and as an Ulsterman himself politics was never too far away from his thoughts. It is no surprise then that many of the poets he selects to illustrate his lectures were those who could be considered as from the “Celtic Fringe” for example: Brian Merman, Hugh McDiarmid, Oscar Wilde, Dylan Thomas and W B Yeats. There is also John Clare the rural poet from Northamptonshire, while the United States is represented by Elizabeth Bishop and England by Philip Larkin. The big political question that hovers in the background and sometimes roars into the foreground is how much England as a Nation had an influence on the poets, how much it brought out the poets into the light, how much they fought against an insidious oppression and how much they could restore a certain imbalance.

It was enough for me to be under the spell of some glorious writing from one of the 20th centuries greatest users of language. The lectures are not difficult to read and flowed by; lodging with me thoughts that affirm a love of life and a love of the written word. A four star read. ( )
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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'.

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