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On Transience, Transcendence, and Sublunar Metaphysics: Seamus Heaney's Spirit(ual) Level
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 50, Number 2, June 2017
- pp. 241-257
- 10.1353/mos.2017.a663700
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
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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