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  • Chapter 11 - Proper Nouns

  • from III - Poetics
  • Edited by Geraldine Higgins, Emory University, Atlanta
  • Book:
    Seamus Heaney in Context
    Published online:
    15 March 2021
    Print publication:
    01 April 2021, pp 127-135

  • Summary

    This chapter looks at nine nouns in Heaney poems, and considers how each shoulders the weight of narrative or meaning in its poem. The chosen nouns are scoop, bucket, lorries (two), car, bicycle, rope and two individual doors. The chapter examines Heaney’s own exhortation in ‘Oysters’, ‘Verb, pure verb’, putting the physical objects and their too-solid nouns at the centre of a close reading of eight poems, including ‘Sunlight’, ‘A Constable Calls’, ‘Súgán’ and ‘Postscript’. The chapter argues that nouns provide a kind of touchstone reality in the poems and are emblems and artefacts of the idea of belonging, deployed to service the relationship between the physical (often domestic) world and the human experience of it.

  • Theophilus of Edessa on the death of Constans II

  • David Woods
  • Journal:
    Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies / Volume 44 / Issue 2 / October 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    07 October 2020, pp. 212-219
    Print publication:
    October 2020

  • It is argued that Theophanes the Confessor derives his information concerning the name of the baths where Constans II was allegedly assassinated from Theophilus of Edessa. It is further argued that Theophilus’ claim that Andrew deliberately killed Constans by hitting him with a bucket is rather unconvincing and may represent the hypothetical reconstruction of the event by an imperial administration that could not accept that the emperor had died as a result of an unfortunate accident.