Crediting Poetry
The Nobel Lecture
Seamus Heaney's Nobel Lecture is a powerful defense of poetry as the ship and the anchor of our spirit within an ocean of violent, divisive politics and world-sorrow. Beginning with the creaturely existence of his childhood in a thatched farmstead in rural County Derr, Heaney traces his path in the wideness of language. It is a way forged by listening: to the burbles and squeaks of BBC and Radio Eireann from a wireless speaker, to the triple-rhyme in a line of Yeats', but also to the sound of gunfire in Ulster and the keening desolation of all the wounded spots on the face of the earth. Out of all these sounds Heaney discovers the necessity o…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4668-5566-3
- EAN: 9781466855663
- Produktnummer: 22474589
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 53 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 100 KB
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