“O My Pablo of Earthlife!”: Heaney’s Neruda and the Reality of the World

Does Seamus Heaney reject Pablo Neruda? That is the view of John Dennison, who argues that Heaney could not give full consent to Neruda’s “impure” poetry (Dennison 2015, 117). This essay seeks to challenge that interpretation. It does so by showing the poet’s engagement with Neruda’s “Towards an Imp...

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Main Author: Shea Atchison
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2021-06-01
Series:Studi Irlandesi
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/12879