Seamus Heaney's American Odyssey describes, with a new archive of correspondence, interviews, and working drafts, the some forty years that Seamus Heaney spent in the U. S. as teacher, as lecturer, as friend and colleague, and as an active poet on the reading circuit.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
1. American Pastoral, 1970-1
2. On the Road, 1971
3. American Burlesque, 1976
4. Heaney at Harvard, 1979
5. On the Road Again, 1979-81
6. Following Heaney, 1983-5
7. The Burden of Fame, 1985-95
8. Hope and History, 1995-2000
9. Grendel Goes to Harvard, 1999-2000
10. An American Tragedy, 2001
Postscript
- Appendix 1: Lecture Tour, 1981 (corrected) arranged by Selma Warner
- Appendix 2: Seamus Heaney's Scheduled Readings 2001-2014
