Description:
The first book-length study of Heaney's dialogue with Virgil, one of Seamus Heaney's major literary exemplars.
Brief description: Rachel Falconer is Professor and Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of Lausanne. Her publications include A Quest for Remembrance: The Underworld in Classical and Modern Literature, edited with Madeleine Scherer, and Hell in Contemporary Literature: Descent Narratives since 1945.
Review Quotes:
To celebrate the book for its exhaustiveness is no faint praise. Anyone who ever wants to investigate Heaney's engagement with Vergil will be grateful to Falconer for methodically drawing together and bringing to light an unprecedented hoard of primary materials, some archival, others ephemeral, many rare or hard to access. Radio essays and interviews, little-known Heaney poems, limited editions light up her subject from as many angles as possible. As a research tool, Falconer's book is indispensable.
--Juan Christian Pellicer, University of Oslo "Translation and Literature 31 (2022)"