Mr. Heaney's new collection, "Human Chain," is his 12th, and there's no escaping its late-period preoccupation with his own mortality.
"What you see is what you see," proclaimed Frank Stella, expressing the period's preoccupation with art concerned only with the direct experience of color and form.
1. Urge: Prior to engaging in the act, a period of preoccupation with the intended behavior that is difficult to resist.
Yet while this was a poem completely of its period, its preoccupations with freedom, identity and displacement still resonate today.
Their Beethoven, heedless of period performance preoccupations but crisp, agile, with hushed accompaniments, especially in the opening, revelled in detail, never losing sense of the whole and displaying, above all, the work's invention.
At the postpartum period, "shape preoccupations" are important.
This exhibition technique is often evocative, as periods and preoccupations intertwine, showing continuities across centuries.
The differences are partly explained by an intervening work, an unpublished manuscript of 172 typed pages entitled "Memoirs of a Bootlegger's Son", written during a period of intense preoccupation for Bellow both with his father, who died in 1955, and with his son, following the dissolution of his first marriage.
The Indian religion was at first regarded as a foreign variety of Daoism; the particular Buddhist texts chosen to be translated during the Han period reveal the Daoist preoccupation of the earliest converts with rules of conduct and techniques of meditation.
Almost all the principal characters, whatever the other circumstances of their lives and however diverse the period and place, share this preoccupation.
