{"product_id":"passage-to-the-center-imagination-and-the-sacred-in-the-poetry-of-seamus-heaney-paperback","title":"Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Tobin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, author of nine collections of poetry and three volumes of influential essays, is regarded by many as the greatest Irish poet since Yeats. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ePassage to the Center\u003c\/i\u003e is the most comprehensive critical treatment to date on Heaney's poetry and the first to study Heaney's body of work up to \u003ci\u003eSeeing Things\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Level\u003c\/i\u003e. It is also the first to examine the poems from the perspective of religion, one of Heaney's guiding preoccupations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to Tobin, the growth of Heaney's poetry may be charted through the recurrent figure of \"the center,\" a key image in the relationship that evolved over time between the poet and his inherited place, an evolution that involved the continual re-evaluation and re-vision of imaginative boundaries. In a way that previous studies have not, Tobin's work examines Heaney's poetry in the context of modernist and postmodernist concerns about the desacralizing of civilization and provides a challenging engagement with the work of a living master.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to \u003ci\u003ePassage to the Center\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDaniel Tobin \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of nine books of poems, including \u003ci\u003eFrom Nothing\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award, \u003ci\u003eThe Stone in the Air, \u003c\/i\u003e his suite of versions from the German of Paul Celan, and \u003ci\u003eBlood Labors\u003c\/i\u003e, named one of the Best Poetry Books of the Year for 2018 by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. His poetry has won many awards, among them the Massachusetts Book Award and fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. Other critical works include \u003ci\u003eAwake in America, The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTo the Many: The Collected Early Works of Lola Ridge, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Serious Earth: Poetry and Transcendence.\u003c\/i\u003e He teaches at Emerson College in Boston.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130571362439,"sku":"9780813192352","price":42.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/49d739102cdfaade95cca7b6dc81babe.webp?v=1732611984","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/passage-to-the-center-imagination-and-the-sacred-in-the-poetry-of-seamus-heaney-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}