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Gravity and Grace: Seamus Heaney and the Force of Light

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Gravity and Grace: Seamus Heaney and the Force of Light - Desmond, John F
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In this thoughtful and carefully argued book, John Desmond uncovers Christian and transcendent elements in Seamus Heaney's poetry by reading it through the intellectual perspectives of the well-known poet Czeslaw Milosz and the French philosopher Simone Weil. Weil was a powerful influence on Milosz's thought and writing; Milosz, in turn, exercised considerable influence on Heaney's thought and poetry. Desmond utilizes these connections in order to show the way Weil's thought about Christianity and transcendence illuminates ...

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Gravity and Grace: Seamus Heaney and the Force of Light 2009, Baylor University Press, Waco

ISBN-13: 9781602580671

Hardcover