Seamus Heaney's Mythmaking Hickey Ian
Seamus Heaney's Mythmaking Hickey Ian Seamus Heaney's Mythmaking examines Seamus Heaney's poetic engagement with myth from his earliest work to the posthumous publication of Aeneid Book VI. They…
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Seamus Heaney's Mythmaking Hickey Ian
Seamus Heaney's Mythmaking examines Seamus Heaney's poetic engagement with myth from his earliest work to the posthumous publication of Aeneid Book VI. They reveal how Heaney adopts a demiurgic role throughout his career, creating a poetic universe that draws on diverse mythic cycles from Greco-Roman to Irish and Norse to Native American. The essays explore the ways in which Heaney creates his own mythic outlook through multiple mythic lenses.
However, it is unique in its wide-ranging perspective, extending beyond Ancient and Classical influences.In its focus on Heaney's personal metamorphosis of several mythic cycles, this collection reveals more fully the poet's unique approach to mythmaking, from his engagement with the act of translation to transnational In doing so, this collection is in dialogue with recent work on Heaney's engagement with myth.