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Deven Coulter wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 9 years, 12 months ago
Although I had never heard of John Synge or his plays until taking Dr. Doggett’s ENGL 458: Major Authors: Yeats and Heaney, I have been listening to Blake Shelton for years. It took me by surprise when I was […]
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Deven Coulter replied to the topic Poets and the Dantean Contrapasso in the forum Irish Studies 10 years ago
I think you are correct in interpreting the poem in viewing the poet as betraying both his family and his political group, potentially Heaney’s Catholic roots if we view the speaker as the poet himself. However, I think it is a bit harsh to state that Heaney is one who lacks all conviction. Conversely, in “Field Work,” I think he is attempting to…[Read more]
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Deven Coulter wrote a new post on the site Irish Studies 10 years ago
As I read the poems in Heaney’s 1975 collection, North, I recognized ritual as an important topic that appears in both Yeats and Heaney’s poetry. Just as Yeats plays were influenced by the Japanese Noh […]
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Deven Coulter started the topic In the Seven Woods as Metapoetry in the forum Irish Studies 10 years, 2 months ago
Although we have not yet discussed Yeats’ transitional works in depth, I immediately noted the contrast between “Adam’s Curse” and the works we have read previously. It seemed to me as if <i>In the Seven Woods</i> contained a meta-discourse on Yeats’ poetry, and a paradoxical one at that. In “Adam’s Curse,” when the speaker is talking of poet…[Read more]
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Deven Coulter and Rob Doggett are now friends 10 years, 2 months ago
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Rob Doggett and Deven Coulter are now friends 10 years, 2 months ago
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Deven Coulter joined the group Irish Studies 10 years, 2 months ago
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Deven Coulter became a registered member 10 years, 2 months ago