THE HUMAN CHAIN
Book ID/图书代码： 04560010B39796
English Summary/英文概要： Seamus Heaney’s twelfth collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered.
Human Chain also broaches larger questions of transmission, as lifelines to the inherited past. There are newly minted versions of anonymous early Irish lyric, poems which stand at the crossroads of oral and written, and other ‘hermit songs’ which weigh equally in their balance the craft of scribe and the poet’s early calling as scholar. A remarkable sequence entitled ‘Route 110’ plots the descent into the underworld in the Aeneid against single moments in the arc of a life, from a 1950s adolescence to the birth of the poet’s first grandchild. Other poems display a Virgilian pietas for the dead - friends, neighbours, family - which is yet wholly and movingly vernacular.
Human Chain also adapts a poetic ‘herbal’ by the Breton poet Guillevic - lyrics as delicate as ferns, which puzzle briefly over the world of speechless things and landscapes, while affirming the interconnectedness of phenomena, as of a self-sufficiency in which the human is also included.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 希尼的最后一部诗集《人性的链条》呈现了多个层面的"链条"。在主题上,目光的交织、声音的应和、手与手的相握、旅途的重合等等表征关联的人情链条勾连起整部诗集。在语言形式层面,相同的词语、引征、典故等形式链条串联起前后两首诗或者处于诗集不同位置的诗。诗集还集中回顾了希尼之前作品中的核心主题,并将个人创作置于爱尔兰历史文化传统乃至整个西方文学传统的母体之中,呈现了诗人的个人记忆和所处的集体文化记忆之间的影响链条。《人性的链条》还改编自布列塔尼诗人吉列维奇的诗集《Herbal》，在短暂地困惑于排除人类语言的事物世界的同时，肯定了现象的相互联系，就像我们也包括在内的自给自足一样。这种改编不仅保留了原作的精致和细腻，还融入了新的诗意和思考。
《人性的链条》是谢默斯·希尼的第十二部诗集。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 谢默斯·希尼（Seamus Heaney，1939年4月13日-2013年8月30日），爱尔兰诗人。生于爱尔兰北部德里郡毛斯邦县一个虔信天主教、世代务农的家庭。希尼不仅是诗人，还是一位诗学专家。1995年获得诺贝尔文学奖。他的诺贝尔奖演讲《归功于诗》（Crediting Poetry，1996）也是一篇重要诗论。他还写过一个剧本。希尼把古英语史诗《贝奥武夫》（Beowulf，2000）译成现代英语，轰动一时。是公认的当今世界最好的英语诗人和天才的文学批评家。希尼自小接受正规的英国教育，1961年以第一名的优异成绩毕业于英国女王大学英文系。毕业后当过一年中学教师，同时大量阅读爱尔兰和英国的现代诗歌，从中寻找将英国文学传统和德里郡乡间生活经历结合起来的途径。1966年，以诗集《一位自然主义者之死》一举成名。1966年到1972年，希尼在母校任现代文学讲师，亲历了北爱尔兰天主教徒为争取公民权举行示威而引起的暴乱。2013年8月30日，爱尔兰诗人谢默斯·希尼逝世，终年74岁。
Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection, appeared in 1966, and since then he has published poetry, criticism and translations which have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. He has twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. District and Circle, his eleventh collection of poems, was published in 2006 and was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Seamus Heaney于1939年出生北爱尔兰，家中有九个孩子。2004年，为了纪念欧盟的扩展，他做了首诗，名为：Beacons of Bealtaine。在那次典礼上，Heaney在来自25个国家的领导人前深情朗诵这首诗。
作者主要作品：
•1966: Death of a Naturalist
•1969: Door into the Dark
•1972: Wintering Out
•1975: North
•1979: Field Work
•1984: Station Island
•1987: The Haw Lantern
•1991: Seeing Things
•1996: The Spirit Level
•2001: Electric Light
•2006: District and Circle
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