Seamus Heaney

MICHAEL BARON Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK JOSEPH BROOKER Teaches Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK SIDNEY BURRIS Professor of English, University of Arkansas, USA and Director of the Fulbright College Honors Program ALISON FINLAY Teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK BARBARA HARDY Professor Emerita, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK JERZY JARNIEWICZ Professor in the Department of Literature, University of Lodz, Poland COLLEEN MCKENNA Member of the faculty at University College, London, UK RUBEN MOI Head of Department of English, Harstad College, Norway STEPHEN REGAN Professor of English, University of Durham, UK RICHARD RANKIN RUSSELL Assistant Professor of English, Baylor University, USA DANIEL W. ROSS Professor of English at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia, USA PAUL TURNER Formerly University Lecturer in the English Faculty, Oxford University, UK

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.B.Crowder & J.D.Hall Seamus Heaney and the Modern Irish Elegy; S.Regan Poems without Frontiers: Poetic Reception and Political Possibility in the Work of Seamus Heaney; R.Rankin Russell "A Meaning Made of Trees": The Unwriting of a Symbol; C.McKenna Reading Heaney Reading; S.Burris Heaney and the Functions of Prose; M.Baron The "Upward Waft": The Influence of Frost and Eliot on Heaney's Later Phase; D.Ross The Way via Warsaw: Seamus Heaney and Post-War Polish Poets; J.Jarniewicz The Cure at Troy : Sophocles or Heaney?; P.Turner Putting a Bawn into Beowulf ; A.Finlay Remember Everything': Things Past in Station Island ; J.Brooker "The cure by poetry that cannot be coerced': Text, Canon and Context in Electric Light ; R.Moi Literary Allusions, Appropriations and Assimilations; B.Hardy Index