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Thomas Flanagan and Seamus Heaney: The Towers of Ireland - A Shared Idea
| Q: How far is this akin with Seamus Heaney’s conception of the four-tower Ireland Spenser’s Kilcolman, Yeats’s Ballylee, Joyce’s Martello, and MacNeice’s Carrickfergus as the monuments around which is ‘quincunx’ was formed in the Oxford Poetry Lecture of 1989 (printed in The Place of Writing)? |
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‘Frontiers of Writing’ (Oxford Poetry Lecture, 23 Nov. 1993)
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| Bibl. Thomas Flanagan, ‘Yeats, Joyce and the Matter of Ireland”, in Critical Inquiry, 2, 1 (Autumn 1975), pp.43-67; p.43; Seamus Heaney, ‘Frontiers of Writing’, in The Redress of Poetry [Oxford Poetry Lecture, 23 Nov. 1993] (London: Faber & Faber 1995), pp.186-202 [prev. in Bullán: An Irish Studies Journal, 1, 1 (Spring 1994), pp.1-16]. |
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[Note: The comparison offered here was first remarked in Ricorso under Thomas Flanagan) in October 2017 and is here developed with the addition of Seamus Heaney"s corresponding text.]
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