Converting to Things Foreknown: Heaney’s Marvelous Imagination in “Station Island”

This essay explores Seamus Heaney’s “Station Island” series in its procession of visions during a pilgrimage to the island of Lough Derg. I argue that Heaney works out in this series a picture of the meeting of worlds, of the worldliness of the present and the in-breaking of the otherworldly, and in...

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Main Author: Ryan L. Womack
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Española de Estudios Irlandeses 2016-03-01
Series:Estudios Irlandeses
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Online Access:http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ryan-L.-Womack_EI11.pdf