00000cam a22000004a 4500 UP-99796217612403943 Buklod 20170302103338.0 a r |||| u| ta 170302s1998 xx d r |||| u| 067479611X (iLib)UPD-00261911703 DLC DCAL rda eng PR 6058 E2 Z94 1998 Vendler, Helen 1933- author. Seamus Heaney Helen Vendler. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press 1998. xvi, 188 pages 21 cm text rdacontent. unmediated rdamedia. volume rdacarrier. Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-183) and index 1. Anonymities: Death of a Naturalist, Door into the Dark, Wintering Out -- 2. Archaeologies: North -- 3. Anthropologies: Field Work -- 4. Alterities and Alter Egos: From Death of a Naturalist to Station Island -- 5. Allegories: The Haw Lantern -- 6. Airiness: Seeing Things -- 7. An Afterwards: The Spirit Level. Helen Vendler traces Heaney's invention as it evolves from his beginnings in Death of a Naturalist (1966) through his most recent volume, The Spirit Level (1996). In sections entitled "Second Thoughts," she considers an often neglected but crucial part of Heaney's evolving talent: self-revision. Here we see how later poems return to the themes or genres of the earlier volumes, and reconceive them in light of the poet's later attitudes or techniques Vendler surveys all of Heaney's efforts in the classical forms - elegy, genre-scene, sonnet, parable, confessional poem, poem of perception - and brings to light his aesthetic and moral attitudes. Heaney, Seamus 1939-2013 Criticism and interpretation. Biography and autobiography--literary. Northern Ireland In literature. FO UPD DCAL PR 6058 E2 Z94 1998 Book