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Synopsis
Contains the famous "bog poems," Heaney's meditations on the bodies of Vikings found preserved in the bogs of northern countries.
| Size | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.2 in | | Weight: | 2.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"In what is by far his best book...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 the memories of the Scandinavian and English invasions which have marked Irish history so indelibly....These new poems have all the sensuousness of Mr. Heaney's earlier work, but refined and cut back to the bone. They are solid, beautifully wrought, expansively resonant. They recognize tragedy and violence without despairingly allowing them to flog human utterance into fragments....This is not only mature; it is noble."
Times Literary Supplement - Anthony Thwaite (08/20/1975)
"Heaney, to my mind the best poet now writing in Ireland, seems the only one of his generation not in some way inhibited by the shadow of Yeats. Though he shares Yeat's love of the archaic, with its combination of the civilized and the stark, he unearths his archaism not in Celtic legends but in the bodies of long-dead Vikings, buried and preserved in Irish and Scandinavian bogs."
(04/18/1976)
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