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Lyric poetry --- Poetry, Medieval --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Medieval poetry

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The first examination of the use made by Seamus Heaney of medieval poetry in his translations and adaptations, including the acclaimed 'Beowulf'. Seamus Heaney's engagement with medieval literature constitutes a significant body of work by a major poet that extends across four decades, including a landmark translation of 'Beowulf'. This book, the first to look exclusively at this engagement, examines both Heaney's direct translations and his adaptation of medieval material in his original poems. Each of the four chapters focuses substantially on a single major text: 'Sweeney Astray' (1983), 'Station Island' (1984), 'Beowulf' (1999) and 'The Testament of Cresseid' (2004). The discussion examines Heaney's translation practice in relation to source texts from a variety of languages (Irish, Italian, Old English, and Middle Scots) from across the medieval period, and also in relation to Heaney's own broader body of work. It suggests that Heaney's translations and adaptations give a contemporary voice to medieval texts, bringing the past to bear upon contemporary concerns both personal and political. CONOR MCCARTHY gained his PhD from Trinity College Dublin.

Poetry, Medieval --- European poetry --- Medieval poetry --- Translations into English --- History and criticism. --- Adaptations --- Heaney, Seamus, --- Heaney, Seamus --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Adaptation. --- Beowulf. --- Contemporary Concerns. --- Literary Influence. --- Medieval Poetry. --- Medieval Texts. --- Poetic Tradition. --- Seamus Heaney. --- Translation.

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Conferences - Meetings --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Classical poetry --- Poetry, Medieval --- History and criticism --- European poetry --- Medieval poetry --- Classical literature

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This volume of interdisciplinary essays examines the intersection of religion and literature in medieval China, focusing on the impact of Buddhism and Daoism on a wide range of elite and popular literary texts and religious practices in the third to eleventh centuries CE. Drawing on the work of the interdisciplinary scholar Stephen Bokenkamp, the essays weave together the many cross-currents of religious, intellectual, and literary traditions in medieval China to provide vivid pictures of medieval Chinese religion and culture as it was lived and practiced. The contributors to the volume are all highly regarded experts in the fields of Chinese poetry, Daoism, Buddhism, popular religion, and literature. Their research papers cut across imagined disciplinary boundaries to show that the culture of medieval China can only be understood by close reading of texts from multiple genres, traditions, and approaches.

Buddhism --- Poetry --- Taoism. --- Taoism --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Daoism, Buddhism, medieval China, medieval poetry. --- Chinese poetry --- History and criticism.

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Medieval poetry --- Middeleeuwse poëzie --- Poetics --- Poetry [Medieval ] --- Poésie médiévale --- Poétique --- Poëtica --- Poëzie [Middeleeuwse ] --- Literature [Medieval ] --- Classical influences --- LITTERATURE MEDIEVALE --- RHETORIQUE MEDIEVALE --- SEMIOTIQUE