ceiling lights & chandeliers
gravity and grace seamus heaney and the force of light
in this thoughtful and carefully argued book john desmond uncovers christian and transcendent elements in seamus heaneys poetry by reading it through the intellectual perspectives of the well known poet czeslaw milosz and the french philosopher simone weil . weil was a powerful influence on miloszs thought and writing ; milosz in turn exercised considerable influence on heaneys thought and poetry . desmond utilizes these connections in order to show the way weils thought about christianity and transcendence illuminates heaneys complex relationship with christianity . desmonds sensitive readings of heaneys poems through this new lens reveal previously unexplored depths in the work of the nobel prize winning poet .