Seamus Heaney
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| Original Title: | Field Work |
| ISBN: | 0374516200 (ISBN13: 9780374516208) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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"Field Work," which first appeared in 1979, is a superb collection of lyrics and narrative poems from one of the literary masters of our time. As the critic Dennis Donoghue wrote in "The New York Times Book Review": "In 1938, not a moment too soon, W. B. Yeats admonished his colleagues: 'Irish poets, learn your trade.' Seamus Heaney, born the following year, has learned his trade so well that it is now a second nature wonderfully responsive to his first. And the proof is in "Field Work," a superb book . . . [This is] a perennial poetry offered at a time when many of us have despaired of seeing such a thing." Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His recent translations include "Beowulf" and "Diary of One Who Vanished"; his recent poetry collections include "Opened Ground" and "Electric Light." "Field Work," which first appeared in 1979, is a superb collection of lyrics and narrative poems from one of the literary masters of our time. As the critic Dennis Donoghue wrote in "The New York Times Book Review": "In 1938, not a moment too soon, W. B. Yeats admonished his colleagues: 'Irish poets, learn your trade.' Seamus Heaney, born the following year, has learned his trade so well that it is now a second nature wonderfully responsive to his first. And the proof is in "Field Work," a superb book . . . [This is] a perennial poetry offered at a time when many of us have despaired of seeing such a thing." "Heaney is keyed and pitched unlike any significant poet now at work in the language, anywhere."--Harold Bloom, "The Times Literary Supplement" "For all the qualities I list, the most important is song [and] the tune Heaney sings [is] poetry's tune, resolutions of cherished language."--Donald Hall, "The Nation"Define Appertaining To Books Field Work
| Title | : | Field Work |
| Author | : | Seamus Heaney |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 66 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1981 by Farrar Straus Giroux (first published 1979) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Cultural. Ireland |
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Ratings: 4.27 From 836 Users | 59 ReviewsCommentary Appertaining To Books Field Work
For me, as an Irishman living abroad, I like to read Heaney on my return. Field Work brought me back to my roots-my childhood and a stimulating new adult experience- and he surely has an especial charm for the Hibernian. Yet, this work and others alike from the Nobel Laureate, deepen particularities and transcend them in a non-zero sum game. A wonderful antidote to a time of perceived rootlessness . This collection served as a fine accompaniment to Jonathan Sacks' book on globalisation-TheFinished: 14.03.2019Genre: poetryRating: A+++#ReadingIrelandMonth19Conclusion:Poetry continues to happen as it should...in silence and solitude.Enjoy one of the greatest Irish poets...Seamus Heaney. My Thoughts
I've appreciated Heaney more for reading this, but not much more. The most fixated upon poet of Northern Ireland underwhelms me. An indisputable eye for nature sure, yet he over-eggs and seems stuck in a role as editor for Farming Magazine. I did appreciate this. Too often Heaney in schools ends up putting the duller works in my lap: this gave me more range. There's real gems in this: the two 'In Memoriam' pieces, 'Elegy', 'Glanmore Sonnet VI' and the spectacular giant finale, 'Ugolino'. But no,
A fathers no shield for his child
Since the death of Seamus Heaney, I returned to this work and had another look. I tried to read a poem or two each day and then relate them to the quilts made by Helen Heron (Northern Ireland). Both of them are/were such scholars who loved to explore the classics and then translate them into their own art forms (he - poetry; she-textiles). My favorite poem here remains the seductive "Oysters."
I didnt realize Seamus Heaney was from the North until I read Field Notes, and I think it shows. The first poem, oysters caught my attention right away with its description of frond-lipped, brine-stung bivalves. Heaneys language, like that of all the great Irish writers, is sensual and sentimental, but whereas Irish poets evoke Irishness, but Heaney conjures up Ireland itself. In the first of the Glanmore Sonnets, Heaney describes the fog over the turned-up acres of a freshly ploughed field as
This collection of poems was published in 1976, four years after Heaney left Belfast with his family and moved south to County Wicklow, south of Dublin. Even here, though, far from the Troubles, his mind cannot leave the torment of Northern Ireland. In the opening poem, Oysters, as he is much in the present, Our shells clacked on the plates/Alive and violated/ Bivalves: the split bulb/Millions of them ripped and shucked and scattered, his thoughts gravitate northward. The first part of the next
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