num_pages: 73
description: In North Seamus Heaney finds a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people, history and landscape. Here the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, and the idea of the north allows the poet to contemplate the violence on his home ground in relation to memories of the Scandinavian and English invasions which have marked Irish history so indelibly. Reviewing “North” in The New York Times in 1976, the Irish poet Richard Murphy “His original power, which even the sternest critics bow to with respect, is that he can give you the feeling as you read his poems that you are actually doing what they describe. His words not only mean what they say, they sound like their meaning.”
language: English
title: North
titlecomplete: North
genres: Classics, Ireland, College, Irish Literature, History, Nobel Prize, 20th Century, Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2211
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: WH Smith Literary Award, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Duff Cooper Prize
publisher: Oxford University Press