Iain Twiddy
Biographic Data
| ID | 5140416 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Iain Twiddy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Iain |
| FAMILY NAME | Twiddy |
| SIGNATURE | TWIDDY I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kyushu University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Special Worlds
Visions of reconciliation
At the heart of myth is negotiation, as the inner world comes to terms with external conditions. Many contemporary Irish poets have turned to mythical material in order to explore how, as Derek Mahon suggested, a good poem could be a paradigm of good politics. This essay explores the ways in which Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley have used ancient Greek myths to bring a hopeful light against seemingly intractable political problems, in line with…
Making hay
In his 1998 collection Hay, Paul Muldoon turns to Virgil for personal guidance through what he calls his ‘crise/d'un certain âge’, but also for help in negotiating problems of national significance. For Muldoon, Virgil is the poet of aftermath, whose double perspectives allow him to examine the interaction of pastoral and epic, legacy and potential. In a number of eclogic and georgic pieces, as well as two small-scale epics, Hay foregrounds the r…
Contemporary Male Elegy
Recent elegiac criticism has commonly distinguished the ways in which male and female poets mourn their dead. In the work of Celeste M. Schenck and Melissa F. Zeiger, male elegy's purpose is to distance the dead in a determined Oedipal progression, and to assert the potency of the survivor, while female poets contest or reject such a pattern in favour of enduring contact. By examining elegies by Michael Longley, Paul Durcan and Paul Muldoon, amon…
Seamus Heaney's Versions of Pastoral
SEAMUS HEANEY begins his 2001 collection Electric Light with two poems of return and renewal. ‘At Toomebridge’ runs ideas of origin and aftermath together in the water which leaves Lough Neagh to become ‘the continuous / Present of the Bann’.1 Revisiting the territory of ‘A Lough Neagh Sequence’ and his early collections, Heaney takes poetic stock, celebrating ‘As once before / The slime and silver of the fattened eel’. In evaluating his poetic i…
Seamus Heaney's Versions of Pastoral
SEAMUS HEANEY begins his 2001 collection Electric Light with two poems of return and renewal. ‘At Toomebridge’ runs ideas of origin and aftermath together in the water which leaves Lough Neagh to become ‘the continuous / Present of the Bann’.1 Revisiting the territory of ‘A Lough Neagh Sequence’ and his early collections, Heaney takes poetic stock, celebrating ‘As once before / The slime and silver of the fattened eel’. In evaluating his poetic i…
Contemporary Male Elegy
Recent elegiac criticism has commonly distinguished the ways in which male and female poets mourn their dead. In the work of Celeste M. Schenck and Melissa F. Zeiger, male elegy's purpose is to distance the dead in a determined Oedipal progression, and to assert the potency of the survivor, while female poets contest or reject such a pattern in favour of enduring contact. By examining elegies by Michael Longley, Paul Durcan and Paul Muldoon, amon…
Seamus Heaney's Versions of Pastoral
SEAMUS HEANEY begins his 2001 collection Electric Light with two poems of return and renewal. ‘At Toomebridge’ runs ideas of origin and aftermath together in the water which leaves Lough Neagh to become ‘the continuous / Present of the Bann’.1 Revisiting the territory of ‘A Lough Neagh Sequence’ and his early collections, Heaney takes poetic stock, celebrating ‘As once before / The slime and silver of the fattened eel’. In evaluating his poetic i…
Making hay
In his 1998 collection Hay, Paul Muldoon turns to Virgil for personal guidance through what he calls his ‘crise/d'un certain âge’, but also for help in negotiating problems of national significance. For Muldoon, Virgil is the poet of aftermath, whose double perspectives allow him to examine the interaction of pastoral and epic, legacy and potential. In a number of eclogic and georgic pieces, as well as two small-scale epics, Hay foregrounds the r…
Contemporary Male Elegy
Recent elegiac criticism has commonly distinguished the ways in which male and female poets mourn their dead. In the work of Celeste M. Schenck and Melissa F. Zeiger, male elegy's purpose is to distance the dead in a determined Oedipal progression, and to assert the potency of the survivor, while female poets contest or reject such a pattern in favour of enduring contact. By examining elegies by Michael Longley, Paul Durcan and Paul Muldoon, amon…
Visions of reconciliation
At the heart of myth is negotiation, as the inner world comes to terms with external conditions. Many contemporary Irish poets have turned to mythical material in order to explore how, as Derek Mahon suggested, a good poem could be a paradigm of good politics. This essay explores the ways in which Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley have used ancient Greek myths to bring a hopeful light against seemingly intractable political problems, in line with…
Special Worlds
Art (4 works) · Irish and British Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Poetry (4 works) · Art history (2 works) · Elegy (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)