Description
In this collection of Oxford lectures, Seamus Heaney explores poetry’s power to restore balance, preserve human dignity, and offer spiritual resistance in the face of violence, oppression, and historical upheaval. Moving from Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare to Gerard Manley Hopkins, Elizabeth Bishop, and other major writers, he considers how poems create imaginative freedom and moral insight without reducing art to political argument. Heaney also reflects on his own development as a poet, translator, and witness to Ireland’s troubled history, examining the relationship between language, memory, culture, and responsibility. Learned yet accessible, these essays offer a profound meditation on the purpose and enduring redemptive force of poetry.
Available Editions
paperback
Faber and Faber
Published Oct 7, 2002
240 pages
ISBN: 9780571175376
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Details
First Published
1990
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Redress of Poetry by Seamus Heaney.