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Seamus Heaney and Catholicism

By Gary Wade

Seamus Heaney and Catholicism

By Gary Wade

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Seamus Heaney and Catholicism makes extensive use of unpublished material to offer fresh insights into Heaney's complex engagement with Catholicism. Gary Wade explores how Catholicism operates in ways other than social and political, which have largely been the focus of critics up until now. Using extensive unpublished material, including early drafts of some familiar poems, it offers close readings which explore how Catholicism operates at the level of feeling, and how it continued to have an emotional purchase on Heaney long after he had left behind orthodox practice. It also engages with Heaney's increasing concern, in his later work, with the loss of a metaphysical sensibility, and his turning to the Roman poet Virgil to deal with questions of death and post-mortem existence. The book concludes by arguing that Heaney's Catholicism is displaced rather than rejected, and that his vision expands to accommodate both the Christian and the Classical worlds.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
248
Release Date:
2026-01-22
Publication Date:
2026-01-22
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1009541331
ISBN13:
9781009541336
Weight:
408 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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