{"product_id":"passage-to-the-center-daniel-tobin-9780813192352","title":"Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney","description":"\u003cp\u003eNobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, author of nine collections of poetry and three volumes of influential essays, is regarded by many as the greatest Irish poet since Yeats. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ePassage to the Center\u003c\/i\u003e is the most comprehensive critical treatment to date on Heaney's poetry and the first to study Heaney's body of work up to \u003ci\u003eSeeing Things\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Level\u003c\/i\u003e. It is also the first to examine the poems from the perspective of religion, one of Heaney's guiding preoccupations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAccording to Tobin, the growth of Heaney's poetry may be charted through the recurrent figure of \"the center,\" a key image in the relationship that evolved over time between the poet and his inherited place, an evolution that involved the continual re-evaluation and re-vision of imaginative boundaries. In a way that previous studies have not, Tobin's work examines Heaney's poetry in the context of modernist and postmodernist concerns about the desacralizing of civilization and provides a challenging engagement with the work of a living master.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Tobin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813192358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813192352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d","brand":"Daniel Tobin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926394372351,"sku":"9780813192352","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_54ad0cb1-41be-4e52-b70a-6140e4b933e1.jpg?v=1681082840","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/passage-to-the-center-daniel-tobin-9780813192352","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}