Seamus Heaney's Versions of Pastoral
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8104216 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Iain Twiddy (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 50-71 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Essays in Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-0856 • E-ISSN: 1471-6852 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/escrit/cgh003 |
| OpenAlex | W1987316881 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
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 inspiration, Heaney suggests that origin is indistinct from destination. In ‘Perch’, that inspiration flows out to a Heraclitean connectedness: Perch we called ‘grunts’, little flood-slubs, runty and ready, I saw and I see in the river's glorified body That is passable through, but they're bluntly holding the pass, Under the water-roof, over the bottom, adoze, Guzzling the current, against it, all muscle and slur In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air That is water, on carpets of Bann stream, on hold In the everything flows and steady go of the world. (p. 4
Art · Art history · Biology · Fish · Fishery · Literature · Perch · Poetry · Social connectedness · Historical Studies of British Isles · Irish and British Studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2014 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |