{"product_id":"the-redress-of-poetry-oxford-lectures","title":"The Redress of Poetry. Oxford Lectures","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHEANEY, Seamus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Redress of Poetry. Oxford Lectures. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLondon: Faber and Faber, 1995 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e8vo., dark grey publisher’s boards, spine lettered in pale yellow with publisher’s device to head; together in the unclipped pictorial dustwrapper (£15.99 to front flap) featuring a woodcut taken from the collection at the Beinecke Library; pp. [x], ix-xviii, 213, [vii]; a near-fine copy, just one small white mark to front boards and mild compression to spine ends; the wrapper with just a little light shelf wear and rubbing to edges; tiny abrasion to head of spine; else near-fine. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst edition. This copy \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003einscribed by Heaney to the half title “For Audrey \/ ‘This is how poems \/ help us live’ \/ (p.37) \/ Seamus Heaney”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Loosely laid in are also a series of ephemeral items, including a ticket to the Éigse Carlow Poetry Reading by Seamus Heaney, which was held in St. Patrick’s College, Carlow on the 17th September in an unspecified year, a postcard from the National Library of Ireland with Heaney’s facsimile signature; and numerous newspaper clippings reviewing the book and commenting on his recent prize win, with extracts from the Independent and The Observer. The quotation is taken directly from one of Heaney’s own poems, reprinted on page 37, the full stanza of which reads: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is how poems help us live.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey match the meshes in the sieve\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLife puts us through; they take and give \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur proper measure\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd prove themselves most transitive \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen they give pleasure\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA collection of lectures which were given by Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1989 to 1994, in which he attempts to prove that, in his own words, ‘poetry is strong enough to help’. His use of examples is diverse and eclectic; ranging from Dylan Thomas to Elizabeth Bishop, and Christopher Marlowe’s ‘Hero and Leander’ to Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’. He also discusses his own work, and together the lectures provide his attempts to discover the ‘purpose’ of poetry, and the place of Irish poetry, specifically, within that framework. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA lovely inscribed example.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fold the Corner Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55917399605572,"sku":"SQ8024068","price":600.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8711\/0212\/files\/537_Foldthecornerbooks_02129.webp?v=1762864023","url":"https:\/\/foldthecornerbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-redress-of-poetry-oxford-lectures","provider":"Fold the Corner Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}