Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. "Faith of Our Fathers Living Still" -- 2. Chosen Peoples -- 3. Sacred and Secular in the Sixties -- 4. Impious Auguries -- 5. A Last Look? -- 6. Miracle and Wonder -- 7. Combating Nothingness -- 8. Metaphysical Needs, Imaginative Ploys -- 9. Varieties of Religious Experience -- 10. Faith Replaced -- 11. Notes from Underground -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
"Traces the similarities between religious developments in Ireland during the twentieth century and the evolution of Seamus Heaney's poetry and of his understanding of his religious self"-- Provided by publisher