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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.809358
EAN: 9780715632376
ISBN: 071563237X
Label: Duckworth Publishers
Manufacturer: Duckworth Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: April 20, 2004
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Studio: Duckworth Publishers
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This book considers the way two Anglo-Irish poets, W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, have used archaeology in their work, and how it surfaced in their lives. As well as providing new insights on Yeats and Heaney, their poetry and its analysis provides a filter for an original reading of the history of archaeology as it emerged from the mid-nineteenth century. Christine Finn draws on an array of data, tracing the path of the poets through museums, their childhood landscapes, and archaeological sites in Ireland, Italy and Scandinavia.
Past Poetic reveals the ways in which these two great poets received the past, as images in books and photographs, and as tangible objects.
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This stunning, ground-breaking, punctiliously researched book considers the influence of archaeology on the work of two Irish poets to whom it was/is very important -- W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney. The section on Yeats includes fascinating details of the history of archaeology, particularly how the Greek and Roman discoveries which so captured Yeats's imagination came to be in the museums where he viewed them. Heaney is drawn not so much to classical antiquity as to the (more recent) discoveries ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 821.809358
EAN: 9780715632376
ISBN: 071563237X
Label: Duckworth Publishers
Manufacturer: Duckworth Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: April 20, 2004
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Studio: Duckworth Publishers