Title: Tongue of water, teeth of stones
First published: 1999
Description: "In a 1984 lecture on poetry and political violence, Seamus Heaney remarked that "the idea of poetry was itself that higher ideal to which the poets had unconsciously turned in order to survive the demeaning conditions." Jonathan Hufstader examines the work of Heaney and his contemporaries to discover how poems, combining conscious technique with unconscious impulse, work as aesthetic forms and as strategies for emotional survival."--BOOK JACKET.

"Focusing on both style and social contexts, Hufstader explores the tension between solidarity and art, between the poet's need to belong and to rebel. He believes that an understanding of the power of lyric points towards an understanding of the source of social violence, and of its cessation. Hufstader provides a fresh account of the relationship between lyric poetry and political violence in Northern Ireland."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: English poetry, History, History and criticism, Homes and haunts, In literature, Intellectual life, Irish Poets, Irish authors, Literature and society, Poets, Irish, Social problems in literature, Violence in literature, Irish poetry, history and criticism, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Places: Northern Ireland
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR8761 .H84 1999