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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| description | 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. |
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