{"title":"Boustrophedon between Hellas and Home","authors":"O. Taplin","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Seamus Heaney did not actually visit Greece until 1995, a trip ‘long promised, long deferred’, followed by a later visit to Delphi, which added a tribute to Zbigniew Herbert and two further ‘Sonnets from Hellas’ to the four set in the Peloponnese. These were all published in Electric Light in 2001, as was the superb poem ‘Out of the Bag’, which works in a ‘pilgrimage’ to Epidaurus. The aim of this short study will be to trace the topography of Heaney’s Hellas poems in order to bring out his vivid observation of locality and landscape. At the same time it will consider the associations that the Greek settings bring to his mind, especially those of other places: hyperborean Poland, Harvard, Lourdes, and, above all, the myth-haunted island at the far north-west of Europe.","PeriodicalId":294595,"journal":{"name":"Seamus Heaney and the Classics","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134536563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paving and Pencilling","authors":"E. Hall","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"A distant relative of an in-law of my husband possesses Heaney’s own copy of the 1953 reprint of J. W. Mackail’s The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English; Heaney signed it with his name (twice) and his school form number. This chapter considers the actual inscriptions to be found in this copy, which show for example that Heaney made a special study of the similes dealing with nature, especially with animals, and was interested in complex epithets and metal objects, especially weapons. The characters who attract the richest annotations by far are Turnus, Pallas, and Latinus. It then asks how these marginalia can illuminate aspects of his later poetry—technical, tonal, lexical, imagistic, and thematic. His possible later creative responses to two features of the Aeneid will receive extended attention. First, the father–son relationship; secondly, the ‘compensation’ for the death of Turnus in the form of the Italian people’s retention of their indigenous language despite the imposition of Trojan colonial rule.","PeriodicalId":294595,"journal":{"name":"Seamus Heaney and the Classics","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133186880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heaney, Yeats, and the Language of Pastoral","authors":"Bernard O’donoghue","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Starting with Seamus Heaney’s essay on the beneficence of pastoral in extremis, I will argue that Heaney moves significantly between pastoral as healing in troubled times and its capacity for a more literary, simple language (as claimed by William Empson) so that the form works for literal rural description as well as for political description and argument. I want to argue that Heaney turned to classical pastoral in the volume Electric Light (2001) in the same way as Yeats turned to it in the volumes after 1916 in Ireland. In both cases there is a tension between what Heaney called ‘The Real Names’ and the generic names within the form, as in Yeats’s ‘Shepherd and Goatherd’ about Robert Gregory and in the name ‘Augusta’ as applied to Lady Gregory and to Heaney’s benefactor Ann Saddlemyer.","PeriodicalId":294595,"journal":{"name":"Seamus Heaney and the Classics","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116111463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antaeus on the Move","authors":"N. Corcoran","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter will focus on the Greek mythological figure of Antaeus in Heaney’s earlier work, while also suggesting that it persists in various guises—as both literary and personal symbol and cultural mechanism—throughout his career. It will offer close readings of some key moments in the history of the figure (and some of its cognates) which have not received much critical attention: in Opened Ground, for instance, in Stations, and in the poem ‘Freedman’ in North. It will claim that in his earlier work Heaney is a more self-conscious inheritor of modernist mythologizing than has been appreciated; an employer of this figure to significant political purposes; and an articulator, by means of it, of changing attitudes to the inheritance of Irish Catholicism. It will also propose associated inter-relationships between Heaney’s work and that of John Hewitt, David Jones, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.","PeriodicalId":294595,"journal":{"name":"Seamus Heaney and the Classics","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133729318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seamus Heaney","authors":"M. Mcdonald","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers Heaney’s work linked with Greek tragedy, the Sophoclean versions The Cure At Troy and The Burial At Thebes and the sequence ‘Mycenae Lookout’ in the collection The Spirit Level (1996). It argues that Heaney used classical Greek drama not only to touch on the Irish troubles but also to present his personal views and values, sometimes employing images from his background as the son of a Catholic father, and often influenced by his upbringing as an Irish Catholic. He depicted war and the lust for violence, but always expressed hope, and a desire for the fires of war to be cleansed by the waters of a miraculous healing well.","PeriodicalId":294595,"journal":{"name":"Seamus Heaney and the Classics","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132197792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Weird Brightness’ and the Riverbank","authors":"Peter D. McDonald","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter begins with a reading from a Virgilian perspective of the third section of the title poem from Heaney’s Seeing Things (1991): here, the poet gives an account of his own early memory of his father after an accident, coming back ‘undrowned’ from the river into which he had toppled on a cart. The chapter will examine in more detail a relevant passage from Heaney’s late translation of Aeneid VI (Virgil’s encounter with Charon). Next, section XI of the ‘Route 110’ sequence (in Human Chain (2010)) will be read in relation to the river motif, and there will be a discussion of Heaney’s term ‘translation’ in that poem, with consideration of its purchase of some fundamental aspects of his poetic theory and practice. The chapter will continue to a reading of an uncollected late piece, ‘The City’, in which Heaney reflects on (amongst other things) the differences between Virgilian and Homeric angles on poetry and suffering, and it will finish with an analysis of the first section (‘Sidhe’) of the Human Chain poem ‘Wraiths’, in order to focus on the poet’s reconciliation of both Virgilian and Irish elements of a metaphysical poetic.","PeriodicalId":294595,"journal":{"name":"Seamus Heaney and the Classics","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129669689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heaney and Hesiod","authors":"R. Fowler","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Heaney acknowledges an affinity with the farmer-poet, the source of a literary tradition which is inspired but rooted: rural and provincial rather than courtly, urban, or cosmopolitan. Distinguishing between ‘rural’ and ‘pastoral’, he draws connections between Hesiod and Kavanagh, Burns and Clare, poets who influenced and authenticated his own style. I explore the relation of poetic vocation to agricultural labour, discussing the encounter with the Muses in the Theogony and the Works and Days and its resonances in Heaney’s writing from the early ‘Personal Helicon’ to Human Chain. Heaney (like Hesiod) returns most often to the ‘expert’ art of the ploughman; I show how the shape and achievement of the ploughed field mirror those of the poem. I conclude with Heaney’s recognition of Hesiod in the ‘Sonnets from Hellas’.","PeriodicalId":294595,"journal":{"name":"Seamus Heaney and the Classics","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125680109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘The Forewarned Journey Back’","authors":"Kathleen C. Riley","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"In his poem ‘The Conway Stewart’ the parental gift of a fountain pen, on the eve of Heaney’s departure to boarding school, performs a symbolic katabasis (descent), as the nib drinks deep of the fresh black liquid in a Lethean prelude to new birth. The pen’s mystical immersion signals the moment of severance from home and family but it also anticipates a return, a reconnection. In his earlier poem ‘Digging’ the pen was to be Heaney’s spade, the instrument that would connect him to the soil of his forbears. Now the pen is transfigured, it is his golden bough, his passage to the netherworld of the past, bearing with it the power to elegize, to revivify memory. This chapter will examine Seamus Heaney’s lifelong preoccupation—culminating in his final collection Human Chain (2010) and his posthumously published translation of Aeneid VI—with the numinous essence of Home and his continual association of the act of nostos (homecoming) with that of katabasis, with crossing and rebirth. It will also consider his notion of ‘poetry as a point of entry into the buried life of the feelings or as a point of exit for it’.","PeriodicalId":294595,"journal":{"name":"Seamus Heaney and the Classics","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115050442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ancient Greek Sailors with Twentieth-Century Metaphors (and Pan-Chronic Trousers)","authors":"Helen Eastman","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter particularly focuses on the duality of Heaney’s chorus, who are nominally the ancient sailors of the original, but use a diction and metaphoric landscape that places the play firmly in Heaney’s Ireland. We look not only at the literary and political implications of this, but specifically at the challenge it gives actors and directors working on the text. This chapter examines how the dual locus of The Cure at Troy works dramaturgically and visually, as an act of translation across time, space, and cultures, and the political questions the play raises by fusing chorus and God at the end of the play. As part of this exploration, the chapter charts Heaney’s journey to find a workable English verse line and metre for translating ancient drama, exploring his correspondence with Ted Hughes on the question. Furthermore, we look at the afterlife of The Cure at Troy, particularly revisions that Heaney has made when excerpts have been published in other contexts.","PeriodicalId":294595,"journal":{"name":"Seamus Heaney and the Classics","volume":"277 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133421899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heaney as Translator","authors":"S. Harrison","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805656.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter looks in detail at Heaney’s considerable competence in Latin as shown in his translations of Virgil and Horace. It moves from some early Horatian versions through the versions of Virgilian pastoral in Electric Light (2001), exploring the full range of verbal engagement with a Latin text, through the Horace version of ‘Anything Can Happen’ in District and Circle (2006) to the posthumous version of the whole of Virgil’s Aeneid VI (2016). Where the evidence is available, it scrutinises the detailed choices made by Heaney in consecutive drafts, and assesses his considerable gifts in rendering formal and elevated Latin poetry readable for a modern audience in a form which is both dignified and natural.","PeriodicalId":294595,"journal":{"name":"Seamus Heaney and the Classics","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131279003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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