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"Sing It Again": Linguistic Medievalisms In Geoffrey Hill And Seamus Heaney, Christian Cotten-Dixon Jan 2026

"Sing It Again": Linguistic Medievalisms In Geoffrey Hill And Seamus Heaney, Christian Cotten-Dixon

Honors College Theses

This study examines the use of early medieval structure and language in the poetry of Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill, focusing on their near-contemporary collections, North and Mercian Hymns. Both collections use etymological and poetic structures to fashion an imagined medieval past in order to discuss personal and cultural narratives of history. Leveraging these structures in poetry and digging them out of past strata like a material artifact, Heaney and Hill collapse linear systems of time and language and access past word forms even as they evolve. This archaeological approach to poetry gives them the means to place the …


North And South: Photographic Mediation In The Work Of Seamus Heaney And Natasha Trethewey, Amanda Sperry, Jill Goad Sep 2016

North And South: Photographic Mediation In The Work Of Seamus Heaney And Natasha Trethewey, Amanda Sperry, Jill Goad

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Contributors, John Countryman, Rand Brandes Aug 2014

Contributors, John Countryman, Rand Brandes

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


The Rain Stick Revisited, Rand Brandes Aug 2014

The Rain Stick Revisited, Rand Brandes

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


In A Country Churchyard, Aidan Rooney Aug 2014

In A Country Churchyard, Aidan Rooney

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Goodbye, Seamus, Shannon Hipp Aug 2014

Goodbye, Seamus, Shannon Hipp

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Hardly "A Cold Heaven": Recalling Seamus Heaney, Brendan Corcoran Aug 2014

Hardly "A Cold Heaven": Recalling Seamus Heaney, Brendan Corcoran

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Across A Crowded Room, Adrian Rice Aug 2014

Across A Crowded Room, Adrian Rice

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Wake Up, Adrian Rice Aug 2014

Wake Up, Adrian Rice

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Feeling Into Words: Remembering Seamus Heaney, Geraldine Higgins Aug 2014

Feeling Into Words: Remembering Seamus Heaney, Geraldine Higgins

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Coon Island: Two Poems In Dedication, Ed Madden Aug 2014

Coon Island: Two Poems In Dedication, Ed Madden

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


1939 And The Road Beyond Coleraine: An Introductory Meditation, Thomas D. Redshaw Aug 2014

1939 And The Road Beyond Coleraine: An Introductory Meditation, Thomas D. Redshaw

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Seamus Heaney: An Appreciation, Margaret M. Harper Aug 2014

Seamus Heaney: An Appreciation, Margaret M. Harper

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Remembering Seamus Heaney, Jill Mccorkle Aug 2014

Remembering Seamus Heaney, Jill Mccorkle

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Remembering The Giver: Seamus Heaney, Richard R. Russell Aug 2014

Remembering The Giver: Seamus Heaney, Richard R. Russell

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Joint Turbary: Heaney’S “Digging” And Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin’S “A Shéamais, Déan Dom”, Cóilín Owens Aug 2014

Joint Turbary: Heaney’S “Digging” And Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin’S “A Shéamais, Déan Dom”, Cóilín Owens

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


"Amach As An Iontas," Isteach San Iontas, I Gcuimhneachán: Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Roslyn Blyn-Ladrew Aug 2014

"Amach As An Iontas," Isteach San Iontas, I Gcuimhneachán: Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Roslyn Blyn-Ladrew

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


"Out Of The Marvellous," Into The Marvellous, In Memoriam: Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Roslyn Blyn-Ladrew Aug 2014

"Out Of The Marvellous," Into The Marvellous, In Memoriam: Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Roslyn Blyn-Ladrew

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Crediting The Poet: What Seamus Heaney Means To Me, Eugene O’Brien Aug 2014

Crediting The Poet: What Seamus Heaney Means To Me, Eugene O’Brien

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Note On Heaney And Pascoli, Marco Sonzogni Aug 2014

Note On Heaney And Pascoli, Marco Sonzogni

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


A Jobber In His Shadow, Marco Sonzogni Aug 2014

A Jobber In His Shadow, Marco Sonzogni

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


North And South: A Calling, Natasha Trethewey Aug 2014

North And South: A Calling, Natasha Trethewey

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Grand, Nat Anderson Aug 2014

Grand, Nat Anderson

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Longing Eyebrows, Eamon Loingsigh Aug 2014

Longing Eyebrows, Eamon Loingsigh

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Seamus Heaney Memorial Reading College Of William And Mary, Virginia, Sept. 30, 2013, Henry Hart Aug 2014

Seamus Heaney Memorial Reading College Of William And Mary, Virginia, Sept. 30, 2013, Henry Hart

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Tuck It In, Kevin Young Aug 2014

Tuck It In, Kevin Young

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


The Music Of What Happens (In Memoriam: Seamus Heaney), Julie Henigan Aug 2014

The Music Of What Happens (In Memoriam: Seamus Heaney), Julie Henigan

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Heaney And Ellmann At Emory, Ronald Schuchard Aug 2014

Heaney And Ellmann At Emory, Ronald Schuchard

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


To Seamus Heaney In Heaven, Iggy Mcgovern Aug 2014

To Seamus Heaney In Heaven, Iggy Mcgovern

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.


Editor's Note, Rand Brandes Aug 2014

Editor's Note, Rand Brandes

Irish Studies South (Archived)

No abstract provided.