Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) was the eldest child of nine born to a farming family in County Derry, Northern Ireland. He won a scholarship to St Columb's College, Derry, beginning an academic career that would lead, through Queen's University Belfast, where his first books of poems were written, to positions including Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard and the Oxford Professor of Poetry. As a poet, Heaney has become both critically feted and publicly popular. Among his many awards are the Nobel Prize for Literature 1995 and the Whitbread prize (twice); he was made a Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 1996.
Heaney's poetry is grounded in actual, local detail, often in memories of Derry or observation of his adopted home in the Republic of Ireland. 'Death of a Naturalist', the title poem of his first collection, finds a moment of horror at nature that is all the more telling for the precise details, such as the "frogspawn that grew like clotted water". Recent Irish history is one of the strongest influences on these details, appearing in its most outspoken form in the poems from North, but often obliquely present elsewhere.
In 'Fosterling', Heaney writes of "waiting until I was nearly fifty / to credit marvels"; his later poetry is certainly open to the marvellous, such as the mysterious ship that appears to the monks in the extract from 'Squarings'. His ability to unite this with the local is praised in his Nobel nomination for poems "which exalt everyday miracles". 'The Skylight', a poem about the fitting of an unwanted window into the roof of his study, leads to an almost Damascene response to the wonder of this light streaming into his room; more threateningly, a trip on 'The Underground' becomes permeated with myths from Ovid, Hansel and Gretel and Eurydice.
In his intimate reading style, Heaney balances a sense of natural speech with his commitment to what he has described as "a musically satisfying order of sounds". This grants full weight to the formal skill that shapes the poems, yet gives the impression that we are being confided in by the man whose poetry, according to the Swedish Academy, is distinguished by "lyrical beauty and ethical depth".
His recording was made on 4 October 2005 at The Audio Workshop, London and was produced by Richard Carrington.
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都是好诗,其中最爱Mycenae Lookout和The Swing。诗人的性情潜藏在每首诗中,最大的感受是诗的张弛有度,恰到好处的表述,诗人思想的张力、底蕴,和人性上的强大。
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评分还差最后两首没读完,但是突然不想读了,诗歌就是要很静心的慢慢读。感觉诗歌就是要读一个系列,这样就可以有和过去的互文的连接。更多的不觉得像是杜甫,觉得是那种利用诗歌对于内心的sympathy的感召。可以结合他的演讲crediting poetry 和 feeling into words加上以前的诗歌一起看。
评分从图书馆借回,七个小时一口气读到现在,读完了。整本诗集每首诗都是好诗,可能只有“建筑师”那首略微弱一点。读得时候,我一会儿想到杜甫,一会儿想到奥登,一会儿想到毕肖普,可还是悉尼。这本诗集从诗歌技巧上讲超越了毕肖普,比她更自信,出神入化之处比她也更自然。但最动人的还是诗中悉尼这个人的心性和智慧,这是独一无二的。非常强大!!!建议能读英诗的人都买回一本和读陶渊明杜甫一样没事常读读。
评分都是好诗,其中最爱Mycenae Lookout和The Swing。诗人的性情潜藏在每首诗中,最大的感受是诗的张弛有度,恰到好处的表述,诗人思想的张力、底蕴,和人性上的强大。
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