Gravity and Grace

Seamus Heaney and the Force of Light

John F. Desmond (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

135 Seiten

2023
Baylor University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4813-1929-4 (ISBN)

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In this thoughtful and carefully argued book, John Desmond uncovers Christian and transcendent elements in Seamus Heaney’s poetry by reading it through the intellectual perspectives of the well-known poet Czeslaw Milosz and the French philosopher Simone Weil.

In this thoughtful and carefully argued book, John Desmond uncovers Christian and transcendent elements in Seamus Heaney's poetry by reading it through the intellectual perspectives of the well-known poet Czeslaw Milosz and the French philosopher Simone Weil. Weil was a powerful influence on Milosz's thought and writing; Milosz, in turn, exercised considerable influence on Heaney's thought and poetry. Desmond utilizes these connections in order to show the way Weil's thought about Christianity and transcendence illuminates Heaney's complex relationship with Christianity. Desmond's sensitive readings of Heaney's poems through this new lens reveal previously unexplored depths in the work of the Nobel Prize-winning poet.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Simone Weil and the Age of Imbalance
Chapter Two: The Poet in the Age of Imbalance
Chapter Three: The Spirit Level
Postscript
Works Cited

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Christianity and Literature
Verlagsort	Waco
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Gebete / Lieder / Meditationen
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4813-1929-9 / 1481319299
ISBN-13	978-1-4813-1929-4 / 9781481319294
Zustand	Neuware