Finders Keepers
Selected Prose, 1971-2001
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8074590 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Pratt (corresponding author), Seamus Heaney |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 106-106 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Literature Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0196-3570 • E-ISSN: 1945-8134 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/40157850 |
| OpenAlex | W2006267943 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world? As well as being a selection from the poet's three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue and The Redress of Poetry), the present volume includes material from 'The Place of Writing', a series of lectures delivered at Emory University in 1988. Also included are a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to more extended lectures and contributions to books. In its soundings of a wide range of poets - Irish and British, American and East European, predecessors and contemporaries - Finders Keepers is, as its title indicates, 'an announcement of both excitement and possession
Art · Linguistics · Irish and British Studies · History · Philosophy
Between the Contingent and the Transcendent
Teaching a Selection of Heaney’s Troubles Poetry to Upper Post-primary Pupils in Northern Ireland’s Divided Schools
Teaching Creative Writing
(Indian) Verse and the Question of Aesthetics
On
Soundings in the Sources of His Power
On The Threshold
A Natural History of Pragmatism
Irish literature since 1990
The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets
Reading for Senseation in Poetry
Seamus Heaney’s Ecopoetry and Environmental Causes
The Concept of the Edge in the Plays of Marina Carr
‘And Somewhere the Dove Rose’
No Vodka, Aquavit or Uisquebaugh
On Supervisors’ Listening
Topographies
The Politics of Bawn in Seamus Heaney’s Translation of Beowulf
Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water, Right Enough”
Of Eagles and Crows, Lions and Oxen
Translating Contemporary Irish Language Poetry
A critical evaluation of the Literature of the Troubles Project
Theological reflection in extremis
Sounding the darkness and discovering the marvellous
The gentle art of re-perceiving’
The bilingual routes of Paul Muldoon/Pól Ó Maoldúin
Fallout from the thunder
Cognitive gain and the close reading of literature
The rationale for the teaching of literature
Washing words
Reflections on the role of the analytic setting in the light of Covid‐19
Positive parochialism”, local belonging and ecological concerns
Walking into Clarity
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,65 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2023 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |