Reception of Dante Alighieri in the Works of Seamus Heaney

Student: Penkina Anastasiya

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2018

Seamus Heaney is a modernist English writer and all his poems and essays are charged with the references to the previous and contemporary world literary traditions. The topic “The Reception of Dante in the Works of Seamus Heaney” is not to be studied yet. Dialogue between Heaney and Dante has begun since 1970s. The first part of the research is to explore how frequent were allusions, references to Dante’s works in Heaney’s poetry, essays and interviews, which were written from 1970s till the death of the author. The second part of the research is connected with “vstrechnoye techenie”( Веселовский). On this stage of researching examines “danteism” in English literature, the influence of Eliot’s, Yeats's, Lowell's Dante on Heaney and the influence of Mandelstam’s Brodsky’s and Milosz’s works on poet. The third part is based on analyzing the reception of Dante in the poems and essay of Heaney.

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