The Redress of Poetry
Seamus Heaney
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Paperback. 20pp. 1990 reprint. Fine. Has previous bookseller's price sticker on back cover. Keywords - Seamus Heaney
Professor Seamus Heaney delivered his inaugural lecture on 24th October, 1989. The poet whom Professor Heaney chose to celebrate in his inaugural lecture was George Herbert. He described him as not just the epitome of English poetic virtue but the embodiment of certain qualities of phlegm, tolerance and equanimity which are usually ascribed to the English themselves. Professor Heaney argues that poetry's present use is neither political nor futile. It offers instead a redress to our discontents and failures, not by lending rhetorical aid to particular causes, but by a symbolic resolution of insoluble problems.
Professor Seamus Heaney delivered his inaugural lecture on 24th October, 1989. The poet whom Professor Heaney chose to celebrate in his inaugural lecture was George Herbert. He described him as not just the epitome of English poetic virtue but the embodiment of certain qualities of phlegm, tolerance and equanimity which are usually ascribed to the English themselves. Professor Heaney argues that poetry's present use is neither political nor futile. It offers instead a redress to our discontents and failures, not by lending rhetorical aid to particular causes, but by a symbolic resolution of insoluble problems.
Product Details
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Oxford University Press Oxford
Condition
Used, Like New
1st Edition
Yes
Format
Paperback
Number of Pages
22
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199513321
SKU
KHS1003427
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