Seamus Heaney

JASON DAVID HALL is Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of articles and chapters on Seamus Heaney's poetry and is completing a monograph of Heaney titled Embedded Poetics. He is an assistant editor of the journal Clues and contributes to a variety of literary encyclopaedias and companions. ASHBY BLAND CROWDER is Peace Professor of English, American Literature and Humanities at Hendrix College in Arkansas, USA. He is author of a twice award-winning biography of William Humphrey, Wakeful Anguish (2004), editor of Far From Home, the

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.B.Crowder & J.D.Hall Seamus Heaney and the Modern Irish Elegy; S.Regan Poems without Frontiers: Poetic Reception and Political Possibility in the Work of Seamus Heaney; R.Rankin Russell "A Meaning Made of Trees": The Unwriting of a Symbol; C.McKenna Reading Heaney Reading; S.Burris Heaney and the Functions of Prose; M.Baron The "Upward Waft": The Influence of Frost and Eliot on Heaney's Later Phase; D.Ross The Way via Warsaw: Seamus Heaney and Post-War Polish Poets; J.Jarniewicz The Cure at Troy : Sophocles or Heaney?; P.Turner Putting a Bawn into Beowulf ; A.Finlay Remember Everything': Things Past in Station Island ; J.Brooker "The cure by poetry that cannot be coerced': Text, Canon and Context in Electric Light ; R.Moi Literary Allusions, Appropriations and Assimilations; B.Hardy Index