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The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures (Paperback)

by Seamus Heaney (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (7 Oct 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571175376
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571175376
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Delivered while Heaney was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, these lectures cover subjects as diverse as Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol" and Marlowe's "Hero and Leander", as well as work by Yeats, Larkin and Dylan Thomas.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring blend of personal response and academic criticism., 26 Jan 2001
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Highly recommended for anyone to whom poetry is important and feels that most criticism seems to miss the point.

These lectures were originally conceived and delivered as individual pieces, but as a collection they also provide an account and defence of Heaney's philosophy of poetry. Heaney deals with poems from the point of view of a reader to whom poetry is important as a means of understanding and coping with life -- for whom, as he says, poetry is "strong enough to help".

As literary criticism they are excellent (if eclectic), and are particularly valuable because they are free of much of the nonsense which creeps into academic commentary on poetry. This isn't to say that Heaney always makes perfect sense, and a couple of the pieces veer towards self-indulgence; nevertheless they are extremely readable, stimulating and -- an extremely rare thing in critical writing -- inspiring.

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