Seamus Heaney in Context

Geraldine Higgins is Associate Professor of English and Director of Irish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Her publications include works on Yeats and other Revival writers, Yeats and popular culture, Brian Friel and Seamus Heaney. She is the curator of the National Library of Ireland's acclaimed exhibition, 'Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again', open at the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre in Dublin until 2023 A former director of the W.B. Yeats Summer School in Sligo, Ireland, she was Emory's Massee-Martin/NEH distinguished teaching chair from 2015–2018.

• Introduction; Part I. Mapping: 1. Scotland Patrick Crotty; 2. England John McAuliffe; 3. Eastern Europe Margaret Greaves; 4. America Sarah Bennett; Part II. Influences and Traditions: 5. Wordsworth and romanticism Matthew Campbell; 6. Thomas Hardy Ron Schuchard; 7. W. B. Yeats Meg Harper; 8. T. S. Eliot Stephen Regan; 9. Louis MacNeice Catriona Clutterbuck; Part III. Poetics: 10. Lyric form John Redmond; 11. Proper nouns Vona Groarke; 12. Language Bernard O'Donoghue; 13. Elegy Brendan Corcoran; 14. Music Simon B. Kress; Part IV. Publishing: 15. The Belfast group Heather Clarke; 16. In print Nathan Suhr-Sytsma; 17. Field day Marilynn Richtarik; 18. Translation Aidan O'Malley; Part V. Frameworks: 19. Catholicism Kieran Quinlan; 20. Classical roots Florence Impens; 21. Politics Jonathan Allison; 22. Education Rosie Lavan; 23. War and peace Richard Rankin Russell; Part VI. Critical Contexts: 24. The feminine Laura O'Connor; 25. The third phase Kevin Whelan; 26. Critical audiences Justin Quinn; 27. The postcolonial Deepika Bahri; 28. The Archipelago Nicholas Allen; Part VII. Legacy: 29. In public Fintan O'Toole; 30. Exhibiting Heaney Geraldine Higgins; 31. The archive Rand Brandes; 32. Legacy Chris Morash.

'Providing background and connections that will lead to epiphanies and enthusiasm for further Heaney exploration, this volume is required for any study of the poet … Essential.' V. A. Murrenus Pilmaier, Choice Magazine