Sounding the darkness and discovering the marvellous: hearing ‘A Lough Neagh Sequence’ with Seamus Heaney's auditory imagination

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dc.contributor.authorBilbro, Jeffrey
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-13T14:45:24Z
dc.date.available2013-09-13T14:45:24Z
dc.date.issued2011-08-24
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript (post-peer review and publisher edits). The final version is published at http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cisr20/19/3#.UjMi4huKJ8Een_US
dc.description.abstractThis essay carefully analyses an important facet of T.S. Eliot's influence on Heaney, namely their shared understanding of the auditory imagination. Heaney looks to Eliot's auditory imagination to help him accomplish three vital poetic tasks: sounding the dark places of the earth, discovering a luminescence within these dark places, and inspiring poetry even when his dark surroundings threaten to silence his art. After accomplishing this analysis through close readings of a wide selection of Heaney's prose and poetry, the essay presents detailed, original readings of Heaney's neglected 'A Lough Neagh Sequence'. These readings practically illustrate the operation of Heaney's auditory imagination and the significance of his poetry's aural elements.[ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]en_US
dc.identifier.citationBilbro, Jeffrey. "Sounding the darkness and discovering the marvellous: hearing 'A Lough Neagh Sequence' with Seamus Heaney's auditory imagination." Irish Studies Review 19, no. 3 (August 2011): 321-340.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11210/19
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherIrish Studies Reviewen_US
dc.subjectIRISH poetryen_US
dc.subjectPOETRY (Literary form) -- History & criticismen_US
dc.subjectauditory imaginationen_US
dc.subjectSeamus Heaneyen_US
dc.subjectsound patternsen_US
dc.subjectELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965en_US
dc.subjectHEANEY, Seamus, 1939-2013en_US
dc.titleSounding the darkness and discovering the marvellous: hearing ‘A Lough Neagh Sequence’ with Seamus Heaney's auditory imaginationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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