Seamus Heaney lost his Catholic faith. But his poetry still sought ...
2023年9月15日 · Here, Heaney turns again to the ancient myths—particularly the classical virtue of pietas (“a sense of right”)—to reshape a traditional religious piety that had faded from prominence in...
Was Seamus Heaney A Catholic Poet? | George Conger - Patheos
2013年9月1日 · There is no doubt that Heaney is a Catholic poet in a sociological sense. Writing in The Listener in 1975, Conor Cruise O’Brien argued that in North, Heaney was giving voice to a tribal...
Was Seamus Heaney a Catholic poet? - GetReligion
2013年9月1日 · While his work has long been associated with Catholicism, is this a sociological or religious description? There is no doubt that Heaney is a Catholic poet in a sociological sense. Writing in The Listener in 1975, Conor Cruise O’Brien argued that in North, Heaney was giving voice to a tribal Catholicism. It was "the tragedy of a people in a ...
SEAMUS HEANEY'S RELIGIOUS REDRESS Duc Dau Abstract For Seamus Heaney, as it is for many who originate from Northern Ireland, religion is closely allied to politics. Heaney's religious ideals, however, extend beyond the divisiveness of sectarianism, and stem from the desire for unity, balance and redress. He finds these religious and social ...
Can religious sceptics celebrate Christmas? Just look to Seamus Heaney
2018年12月22日 · Seamus Heaney was raised in a Catholic household, but became agnostic. Photograph: David Sleator/The Irish Times. In an interview with John Haffenden in 1981, Seamus Heaney describes...
Seamus Heaney's Religious Redress - Oxford Academic
2003年3月1日 · For Seamus Heaney, as it is for many who originate from Northern Ireland, religion is closely allied to politics. Heaney's religious ideals, however, extend beyond the divisiveness of sectarianism, and stem from the desire for unity, balance and redress.
Heaney is a Catholic poet; to understand the polysemic resonances of that proper adjective- common noun combination in this description; to probe the fluid epistemological status of the Catholicism in question and also, to unpack the ideological and hegemonic meanings that
Seamus Heaney: Reaching for the sacred - Jesuits Ireland
2024年10月2日 · He further considers Heaney’s negotiation of fame and privacy, his relations with other poets, and his discretion in talking about religion and current affairs. Concluding the set of essays on Heaney is Thomas O’Grady’s ‘Seamus Heaney’s Second Life’.
In brief, Seamus Heaney displays a resistance, common among modern Catholic artists and intellectuals, to much of what popularly passes as religion. But metaphysics and for that matter religion, at least in their hermeneutically consti-tutive functions, are relentless pursuers.
Politics, religion and the work of Seamus Heaney
Heaney examines his Irish heritage, he becomes disillusioned with the impotent, ideological preconceptions of both tribes, the empty rhetoric of politicians, and with the dogmatic, enervating Roman Catholic Church. Heaney is forced into the position of public spokesman by the political convulsions of his time.
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