The article explores Heaney’s assimilation of Dante’s model in the context of the Troubles, especially the hunger strikes and the dirty protests at Long Kesh, with specific reference to his translation and rewriting of the «Ugolino» episode and of the underworld journey. The basic assumption is that it is precisely by following in the footsteps of Dante, that Heaney has found a unique way of combining ethics and aesthetics into what he calls a new po-ethics.

«...la qual per me ha ’l titol de la fame». Heaney, Dante e la vocazione po-etica nell’Irlanda contemporanea

Maristella Gatto
2021-01-01

Abstract

The article explores Heaney’s assimilation of Dante’s model in the context of the Troubles, especially the hunger strikes and the dirty protests at Long Kesh, with specific reference to his translation and rewriting of the «Ugolino» episode and of the underworld journey. The basic assumption is that it is precisely by following in the footsteps of Dante, that Heaney has found a unique way of combining ethics and aesthetics into what he calls a new po-ethics.
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