Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of Poetry. Falconer 9781474454407 New**

Name: Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of Poetry. Falconer 9781474454407 New**
Brand: Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press

Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of PoetryAuthor(s): Rachel Falconer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781474454407, 978-1474454407\nSynopsis\nThis book demonstrates the ways in which Virgils are poems that Heaney lived with long and dreamily, especially the descent into the underworld in Aeneid VI. It shows that in his original English poems as well as his translations from Latin, Heaney conjures and transforms familiar Virgilian motifs. The rhythm, pace and musicality of Virgils hexameters can be heard in Heaneys pastoral eclogues and sonnet sequences. And Virgils life and times, as well as his poetry, contribute to the shaping of Heaneys prose poetics. In dialogue with Virgil, as well as other classical and modern poets, Heaney develops his notion of the redress of poetry: the counterbalance that poetry can offer against historical tragedy, suffering and loss. \nThe book explores Heaneys inte.