Crediting Poetry e-bog

Seamus Heaney's Nobel Lecture, captured here in Crediting Poetry, is a powerful defense of poetry as "e;the ship and the anchor"e; of our spirit within an ocean of violent, divisive politics and "e;world-sorrow."e; Beginning with the "e;creaturely existence"e; of his childhood in a thatched farmstead in rural County Derry, Heaney traces his path in "e;the wideness of language."e; It is a way forged by listening: to the "e;burbles and squeaks"e; of BBC and Radio Eireann from a wireless speaker, to the triple-rhyme in a line of Yeats', but also to the sound of gunfire in Ulster and the keening desolation of all the "e;wounded spots on the face of the earth."e; Out of all these sounds Heaney discovers the necessity of poetic order--"e;an order where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew."e;It is poetry's ability to convey the forces of the marvelous and the murderous together, Heaney writes, that gives it "e;at once a buoyancy and a holding,"e; and persuades us of its "e;truth to life."e; Heaney's lecture not only finds a way of crediting poetry "e;without anxiety or apology,"e; but it persuades us, eloquently and gracefully, of the "e;rightness"e; and "e;thereness"e; of our veritable human being.