Electric Light (poetry)
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Electric Light is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney
which explores childhood, nature, and poetry itself.
Part one presents translations and adaptations, occasional and celebratory poems, and verse about travel in the Gaeltacht
, the Balkans
and Greece
. Part two of the collection consists of elegies for poets (Ted Hughes
, Joseph Brodsky
, and Zbigniew Herbert
), and Heaney's relatives and friends.
Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.
Perch
Lupins
Out of the Bag 1
Out of the Bag 2
Out of the Bag 3
Out of the Bag 4
Bann Valley Eclogue
Montana
The Loose Box
Turpin Song
The Border Campaign
Known World
The Little Canticles of Asturias 1
The Little Canticles of Asturias 2
The Little Canticles of Asturias 3
Ballynahinch Lake
The Clothes Shrine
Red, White and Blue 1. Red
Red, White and Blue 2. White
Red, White and Blue 3. Blue
Virgil: Eclogue IX
Glanmore Eclogue
Sonnets from Hellas 1. Into Arcadia
Sonnets from Hellas 2. Conkers
Sonnets from Hellas 3. Pylos
Sonnets from Hellas 4. The Augean Stables
Sonnets from Hellas 5. Castalian Spring
Sonnets from Hellas 6. Desfina
The Gaeltacht
The Real Name
The Bookcase
Vitruviana
Ten Glosses 1. The Marching Season
Ten Glosses 2. The Catechism
Ten Glosses 3. The Bridge
Ten Glosses 4. A Suit
Ten Glosses 5. The Party
Ten Glosses 6. W. H. Auden 1907-73
Ten Glosses 7. The Lesson
Ten Glosses 8. Moling's Gloss
Ten Glosses 9. Colly
Ten Glosses 10. A Norman Simile
The Fragment
On His Work in the English Tongue (1)
On His Work in the English Tongue (2)
On His Work in the English Tongue (3)
On His Work in the English Tongue (4)
On His Work in the English Tongue (5)
Audenesque
To the Shade of Zbigniew Herbert
'Would They Had Stay'd'
Late in the Day
Arion
Bodies and Souls
Clonmany to Ahascragh
Sruth
Seeing the Sick
Electric Light
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...
which explores childhood, nature, and poetry itself.
Part one presents translations and adaptations, occasional and celebratory poems, and verse about travel in the Gaeltacht
Gaeltacht
is the Irish language word meaning an Irish-speaking region. In Ireland, the Gaeltacht, or an Ghaeltacht, refers individually to any, or collectively to all, of the districts where the government recognises that the Irish language is the predominant language, that is, the vernacular spoken at home...
, the Balkans
Balkans
The Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe...
and Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
. Part two of the collection consists of elegies for poets (Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes
Edward James Hughes OM , more commonly known as Ted Hughes, was an English poet and children's writer. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath, from 1956 until...
, Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...
, and Zbigniew Herbert
Zbigniew Herbert
Zbigniew Herbert was an influential Polish poet, essayist, drama writer, author of plays, and moralist. A member of the Polish resistance movement – Home Army during World War II, he is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers...
), and Heaney's relatives and friends.
Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.
The poems
At ToomebridgePerch
Lupins
Out of the Bag 1
Out of the Bag 2
Out of the Bag 3
Out of the Bag 4
Bann Valley Eclogue
Montana
The Loose Box
Turpin Song
The Border Campaign
Known World
The Little Canticles of Asturias 1
The Little Canticles of Asturias 2
The Little Canticles of Asturias 3
Ballynahinch Lake
The Clothes Shrine
Red, White and Blue 1. Red
Red, White and Blue 2. White
Red, White and Blue 3. Blue
Virgil: Eclogue IX
Glanmore Eclogue
Sonnets from Hellas 1. Into Arcadia
Sonnets from Hellas 2. Conkers
Sonnets from Hellas 3. Pylos
Sonnets from Hellas 4. The Augean Stables
Sonnets from Hellas 5. Castalian Spring
Sonnets from Hellas 6. Desfina
The Gaeltacht
The Real Name
The Bookcase
Vitruviana
Ten Glosses 1. The Marching Season
Ten Glosses 2. The Catechism
Ten Glosses 3. The Bridge
Ten Glosses 4. A Suit
Ten Glosses 5. The Party
Ten Glosses 6. W. H. Auden 1907-73
Ten Glosses 7. The Lesson
Ten Glosses 8. Moling's Gloss
Ten Glosses 9. Colly
Ten Glosses 10. A Norman Simile
The Fragment
On His Work in the English Tongue (1)
On His Work in the English Tongue (2)
On His Work in the English Tongue (3)
On His Work in the English Tongue (4)
On His Work in the English Tongue (5)
Audenesque
To the Shade of Zbigniew Herbert
'Would They Had Stay'd'
Late in the Day
Arion
Bodies and Souls
Clonmany to Ahascragh
Sruth
Seeing the Sick
Electric Light