Seamus Heaney's Gifts by Henry Hart Hardcover Book

Description: Seamus Heaney's Gifts by Henry Hart Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description The first comprehensive examination of Heaneys preoccupation with gifts and gift-exchange. Drawing on extensive research in Heaneys papers, Hart presents a richly detailed study of Heaneys life and work that foregrounds the Irishmans commitment to the vocation of poetry as a public art to be shared with audiences and readers around the world. Publisher Description The fact of the matter,"" Seamus Heaney said in a 1997 interview with the Paris Review, ""is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry."" Throughout his career, Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, maintained that poetry came to him from a mysterious source like a gift of grace. He also believed that the recipient of this sort of boon had an ethical obligation to share it with others. Seamus Heaneys Gifts, by the noted scholar and poet Henry Hart, offers the first comprehensive examination of Heaneys preoccupation with gifts and gift-exchange. Drawing on extensive research in Heaneys papers, as well as three decades of correspondence with the poet, Hart presents a richly detailed study of Heaneys life and work that foregrounds the Irishmans commitment to the vocation of poetry as a public art to be shared with audiences and readers around the world. Heaney traced his devotion to gifts back to the actual present of a Conway Stewart fountain pen that his parents gave him at the age of twelve when he left his family farm in Northern Ireland to attend a private Catholic secondary school in Londonderry. He commemorated this gift in ""Digging,"" the first poem in his first book, and in two poems he wrote near the end of his life: ""The Conway Stewart"" and ""On the Gift of a Fountain Pen."" Friends and doctors had warned him that his endless globetrotting to give lectures and poetry readings had damaged his health. Yet he felt obligated to share his talent with audiences around the world until his death in 2013. As Hart shows, Heaney found his first models for gift-giving in his rural community in Northern Ireland, the Bible, the rituals of the Catholic Church, and the literature of mystical and mythical quests. Blending careful research with evocative commentaries on the poets work, Seamus Heaneys Gifts explains his ideas about the artists gift, the necessity of gift-exchange acts, and the moral responsibility to share ones talents for the benefit of others. Author Biography Henry Hart is the Mildred and J. B. Hickman Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary. He has published four poetry collections and numerous scholarly books about modern poets, including biographies of James Dickey and Robert Frost. From 1984 to 1994 he coedited VERSE, an international poetry magazine, and from 2018 to 2020 he served as poet laureate of Virginia. Details ISBN 0807182567 ISBN-13 9780807182567 Title Seamus Heaney's Gifts Author Henry Hart Format Hardcover Year 2024 Pages 360 Publisher Louisiana State University Press GE_Item_ID:168550718; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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