{"product_id":"seamus-heaney-virgil-and-the-good","title":"Seamus Heaney Virgil And The Good","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book demonstrates the ways in which Virgil’s are poems that Heaney ‘lived with long and dreamily’, especially the descent into the underworld in \u003ci\u003eAeneid VI\u003c\/i\u003e. It shows that in his original English poems as well as his translations from Latin, Heaney conjures and transforms familiar Virgilian motifs. The rhythm, pace and musicality of Virgil’s hexameters can be heard in Heaney’s pastoral eclogues and sonnet sequences. And Virgil’s life and times, as well as his poetry, contribute to the shaping of Heaney’s prose poetics. In dialogue with Virgil, as well as other classical and modern poets, Heaney develops his notion of the redress of poetry: the counterbalance that poetry can offer against historical tragedy, suffering and loss. \u003cbr\u003eThe book explores Heaney’s intensely productive, thirty-year dialogue with Virgil, beginning with his translation of ‘The Golden Bough’ in the 1980s and extending through several major volumes, including \u003ci\u003eSeeing Things\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Midnight Verdict\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElectric Light\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDistrict and Circle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Riverbank Field\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHuman Chain\u003c\/i\u003e, and the posthumously published translation of \u003ci\u003eAeneid Book VI\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57305552617854,"sku":"NW9781474454407","price":21.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781474454407.jpg?v=1778517352","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/seamus-heaney-virgil-and-the-good","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}