North - Softcover
In North Seamus Heaney finds a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people, history and landscape. Here the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, and the idea of the north allows the poet to contemplate the violence on his home ground in relation to memories of the Scandinavian and English invasions which have marked Irish history so indelibly. Reviewing "North" in The New York Times in 1976, the Irish poet Richard Murphy wrote: "His original power, which even the sternest critics bow to with respect, is that he can give you the feeling as you read his poems that you are actually doing what they describe. His words not only mean what they say, they sound like their meaning."
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0195199138
- ISBN 13 9780195199130
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages73
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