An up-to-date overview of Heaney's career thus far, with detailed readings of all his major publications.

A journal of Irish studies.

A 17,000 word interview, with a career sketch, a comprehensive bibliography, and a representative list of quotations from Heaney's critics and reviewers. Also included is Heaney's poem, 'Known World'.

This book offers an examination of Seamus Heaney's poetic volume, Opened Ground, placing it into dialogue with the major themes, terms and ideas of Jungian psychology. This work should appeal to scholars interested in Jungian psychology, Jungian readings of literature, and Irish poetry. Opened Ground, in which the poems are read in Jungian terms. Heaney had referred to himself as Jungian in religion and naturally used terms such as initiation, individuation and the unconscious in interviews and essays. Therefore, key Jungian terms are examined in relation to Heaney's poetic expression of these and explored through at least one poem from each of the collections represented in Opened Ground. This allows for an exploration of the creative tensions involved in the poet's presentation of personal, poetic and political concerns, while also allowing for further examination of the powerful physicality and musical qualities of the language in which he luxuriates.

A comprehensive list of criticism of the Irish poet who is probably the most widely ready contemporary poet in the English language. Includes books, doctoral dissertations, essays in books, journal articles and reviews, newspaper stories and reviews, and interviews. Ranges from the publication of his first collection in 1965 through 1993. Excludes short mentions that contain no information or opinion, and trivial, unscholarly items. Indexed only by name and title. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Ever since his student efforts thrilled Seamus Heaney in the early 1970s, Paul Muldoon has written poetry acclaimed for its brilliance and originality, its mischievousness, wit and complex artifice. Today, Muldoon is widely considered to be the greatest poet of his generation, not just in Ireland, but throughout the English-speaking world. The twelve essays collected here chart the development of this unpredictable, innovative and challenging talent over the last thirty years. They offer a kaleidoscopic examination of Muldoon's writings in the three genres of poetry, prose and drama, from a variety of perspectives, and without any polemical intention beyond that of celebrating his achievement. Taken together, these essays attempt to map the continuity of Muldoon's diverse and substantial oeuvre, but also to highlight its constant experimentalism; they demonstrate how difficult it is for us to know how seriously we should take anything Muldoon says, but alert us to the ways in which the playfulness and cleverness contribute to a profound ethical seriousness; they explore his complexly deconstructive technique to show how it represents a constant renewal of the self and of form; they show how the momentum for escape from the past is always contained within the recognition of the impossibility of escape; they examine the work as a means of both evasive self-protection from the world and self-expression of an intense emotional life; they calculate the ratios of scepticism and passion,