Poem

4 Summer 1969

Title	4 Summer 1969
Author	Seamus Heaney

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996	1998	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #2468

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996
Date of Publication	1998
Publisher	Faber and Faber (UK)
Page Number(s)	140-141

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

Details

Human Rights Issues	War State Violence
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Spanish Civil War
Irish Context	Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned The Troubles/Sectarian Tensions (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Part Of Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	Northern Irish Troubles underpins a poem that largely explicitly adopts the perspective the Spanish Civil War, Lorca, and Goya's painting.

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