Heaney and Eastern Europe

Quinn, Justin

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“…The only critic who devotes some space to Kochanowski is the Prague-based Irish poet, Justin Quinn:With the fall of the Iron Curtain, and the return of the awareness that, say, Vienna is farther east than Prague, Heaney and Barańczak’s translation of Treny can stand as a symbol for the reinstatement of the poetry of the East within the European poetic tradition proper, by which I mean that that tradition does not properly exist without the East. (Quinn, 2009: 103)…”

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From Miłosz to Kochanowski: The uses of Polish poetry in Seamus Heaney’s work

Jarniewicz

2016

Journal of European Studies

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This article examines Seamus Heaney’s uses of contemporary Polish poetry in his work from the last two decades of the twentieth century. His interest in the poetry of Miłosz and Herbert reached its peak in the politicized 1980s, almost 20 years after their poetry was first published in English to great critical acclaim. The article argues that Heaney’s portrayal of Polish poets was an indirect way of articulating his own preoccupations and thoughts on the functions of the poet in modern times. The article looks also at Heaney’s co-translation of Jan Kochanowski’s Laments, as a necessary stage in the development of his concept of translation as cultural redress, leading towards the rearrangement of cultural, linguistic and political hierarchies.

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From Miłosz to Kochanowski: The uses of Polish poetry in Seamus Heaney’s work

Jarniewicz

2016

Journal of European Studies

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“…The paradox was that the examples of the writers associated with the democratic opposition in, say, Poland or Czechoslovakia, led the Northern Irish poet to assume the notion of literature as a didactic, accountable and mimetic art. This developed into what Thomas Docherty rather severely called an ‘imperialism of thought’ (quoted in Quinn, 2009: 95): a view of poetry as great, canonical and elitist, unavoidably reducing alterity to all-embracing identity. Such assumptions found their culmination in the late essay ‘Secular and millennial Miłosz’ where Heaney flatly enumerates the features of the great poet: ‘one who keeps alive the idea of individual responsibility in an age of relativity’, ‘somebody on a secret errand, with ancient and vital truths in his keeping’ and, this time with an eye on Miłosz himself, a ‘sage on the mountain, maintaining the gravity of being even as he inhales the increasingly weightless, late-capitalist, post-modern air of California’ (Heaney, 2002: 410–11).…”

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Introduction: Seamus Heaney’s Europe

Gutorow

Kennedy

2016

Journal of European Studies

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Seamus Heaney’s Europe is a space of contradictions. On the one hand, there is his belief in the principle of the national and ethnic identity understood in essentialist terms. On the other hand, there is a vision of the European tradition as multi-layered and devoid of clear outlines and a stable centre. The two moments inform Heaney’s work and are examined in the context of literary fascinations and interdependencies.

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The Poetry of Eastern European Ireland: Stereotypes and Appropriations

Jarniewicz¹

2010

Studia Celto-Slavica

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In 1988, towards the close of the turbulent decade, which in Northern Ireland started with the drama of hunger strikes and in Poland with the strikes in Gdańsk dockyards, the foundation and subsequent suppression of “Solidarity”, Seamus Heaney published The Government of the Tongue, his controversial critical book centered on the question of the poet’s, and poetry’s, responsibilities in a world of suffering and social injustice. In these polemical essays Heaney put forward an image of Eastern European poetry as the exemplary literature not only to be studied, but also to be followed. Heaney discussed at length the works of such poets from beyond the Iron Curtain as the two Poles, Czesław Miłosz and Zbigniew Herbert, the Russian Osip Mandelstam, and the Czech poet, Miroslav Holub.

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Heaney and Eastern Europe

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From Miłosz to Kochanowski: The uses of Polish poetry in Seamus Heaney’s work

From Miłosz to Kochanowski: The uses of Polish poetry in Seamus Heaney’s work

Introduction: Seamus Heaney’s Europe

The Poetry of Eastern European Ireland: Stereotypes and Appropriations

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