Andrew Murphy
Autore di A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text
Sull'Autore
Andrew Murphy is Reader in English Literature at the University of St. Andrews.
Serie
Opere di Andrew Murphy
But the Irish Sea Betwixt Us: Ireland, Colonialism, and Renaissance Literature (Irish Literature, History, and Culture) (1999) 2 copie
Structure removal 1 copia
Critical Survey 7:3 (Textual Shakespeare) — Editor/Contributor — 1 copia
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Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 20th century
- Sesso
- male
- Istruzione
- Trinity College, Dublin
Brandeis University - Organizzazioni
- University of St Andrews
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 10
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 74
- Popolarità
- #238,154
- Voto
- 4.8
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 33
- Lingue
- 1
I need not have worried, Andrew Murphy is much too wise to pump an opinion into his audience. This book is packed with background information upon Seamus Heaney's life and the influences bearing upon him at the time at which each poem was written. The presentation is neutral as to whether these are great poems, or otherwise and, whilst Heaney's work does stand alone, there is an added enjoyment from understanding some of the references within the poems.
It may sound like a backhanded compliment when I say that this book felt longer than its ninety-two pages, but I do not mean to imply that it dragged, but rather that each page was packed with valuable information and that one could easily read a tome stretching to a thousand pages and come away with not a jot more feeling for Seamus Heaney and his oeuvre.
I cannot, as yet, recommend the series, as I mentioned above, this is my first experience of same but, you can believe that I am eagerly looking to acquire other titles as soon as possible.....… (altro)