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Irish Poets and Modern Greece

Heaney, Mahon, Cavafy, Seferis

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Authors:
  1. Joanna Kruczkowska

    1. Institute of English Studies, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

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  • First book to focus on modern Greece and Irish poetry, in contrast to existing monographs on ancient Greece in Irish poetry

  • Focuses on the countries’ political, as well as literary, histories

  • Contributes a fresh perspective to the large body of critical work on Seamus Heaney

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Travel and Landscape

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Island Visions: Derek Mahon’s Cyclades

      • Joanna Kruczkowska
      Pages 3-67

    3. Mainland Hellas: Seamus Heaney’s Peloponnese and Delphi

      • Joanna Kruczkowska
      Pages 69-129

  3. Translation of Cavafy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
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    2. The Winding Road of Translation: Derek Mahon’s Versions of Cavafy

      • Joanna Kruczkowska
      Pages 133-195

    3. Mediating the Canon: Seamus Heaney’s Versions of Cavafy

      • Joanna Kruczkowska
      Pages 197-245

  4. Allusion to Seferis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247
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    2. Asphodels and Aspalathoi—Seferis, Heaney, Mahon: Politics and Landscape

      • Joanna Kruczkowska
      Pages 249-287

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 289-320
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About this book

This book explores the perception of modern Greek landscape and poetry in the writings of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon. Delving into travel writing, ecocriticism, translation and allusion, it offers a fresh comparative link between Greek modernity and Irish poetry that counterbalances the preeminence of Greek antiquity in existing criticism. The first section, devoted to travel and landscape, examines Mahon’s modern perception of the Aegean, inspired by his travels to the Cyclades between 1974 and 1997, as well as Heaney’s philhellenic relationship with mainland Greece between 1995 and 2004. The second section offers a close analysis of their C. P. Cavafy translations, and compares George Seferis’ original texts with their creative rendition in the writings of the Irish poets. The book will appeal to readers of poetry as well as those interested in the interactions between Ireland and Greece, two countries at the extreme points of Europe, in times of crisis.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of English Studies, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

    Joanna Kruczkowska

About the author

Joanna Kruczkowska is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lodz, Poland. She specialises in comparative poetry, including Irish, modern Greek and Polish work. She has recently completed her Irellas project on contemporary Irish poets and modern Greece under the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship at the University of Athens.

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