On Transience, Transcendence, and Sublunar Metaphysics: Seamus Heaney's "Spirit(ual) Level"

In Seamus Heaney's poetry, an alleged transition from an early earthy material transience to an ensuing airy spiritual transcendence has been overemphasized. This essay contends that in Heaney's sublunar metaphysics transience and transcendence go hand in hand, so that spirituality is gras...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Mosaic (Winnipeg) 2017-06, Vol.50 (2), p.241-257
1. Verfasser:	RÁEZ-PADILLA, JUAN
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Analysis British & Irish literature Criticism and interpretation Ecocriticism Essays Heaney, Seamus Heroism & heroes Imagination Irish literature Literary devices Literary influences Literary translation Materiality Metaphysics Multiculturalism & pluralism Permeability Poetry Poets Public speaking Spirituality Transcendence (Philosophy) Works
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Zusammenfassung:	In Seamus Heaney's poetry, an alleged transition from an early earthy material transience to an ensuing airy spiritual transcendence has been overemphasized. This essay contends that in Heaney's sublunar metaphysics transience and transcendence go hand in hand, so that spirituality is grasped in his alchemical verse in and through materiality.
ISSN:	0027-1276 1925-5683 1925-5683
DOI:	10.1353/mos.2017.a663700