{"product_id":"art-of-translation-in-seamus-heaney-s-poetry-1","title":"Art of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Art of Translation in Seamus Heaney’s Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e is a critical study of the poet's later work. While exploring his practice as a translator, it also traces his increasing preoccupation with the possibilities and conditions of translation in the theological sense of being lifted up in spirit. To the work of this philosophical poet, who would be both “earthed and heady” this book brings the insights of ordinary language philosophy as practiced by Stanley Cavell. It devotes separate chapters to \u003cem\u003eStation Island\u003c\/em\u003e and three later collections: \u003cem\u003eSeeing Things, Electric Light and Human Chain\u003c\/em\u003e. The first of these addresses the most fundamental change in Heaney’s life when he acknowledges the “need and chance to re-envisage” his Irish-Catholic upbringing; it is also replete with both the activity and the trope of translation. Published seven years later, \u003cem\u003eSeeing Things\u003c\/em\u003e begins with a translation of Virgil’s golden bough episode and ends with a similar crossing over into the underworld by Dante. Heaney transforms both into poems about poetry. In \u003cem\u003eElectric Light\u003c\/em\u003e, Heaney returns to Virgil, but now he concentrates not on the hero of the \u003cem\u003eAeneid\u003c\/em\u003e but on Virgil's earlier efforts in pastoral, a mode of writing that Heaney takes as a model for his own time and place of “devastated order.” Heaney returns to the \u003ci\u003eAeneid \u003c\/i\u003ein \u003ci\u003eHuman Chain\u003c\/i\u003e, but this time around he gives all his attention to the scene of the human souls in Elysium seeking rebirth and turns it into an image for the need and chance of pronouncing “a final \u003ci\u003eYes\u003c\/i\u003e” to our world and our place in it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55283269730648,"sku":"9781032629780","price":56.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032629780_92c83fa2-dea4-45fd-84c1-bec9bc8d576f.jpg?v=1768411830","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/art-of-translation-in-seamus-heaney-s-poetry-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}