Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats."
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Aeneid Book VI
Seamus Heaney
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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A masterpiece from one of the greatest poets of the century
In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney’s translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil’s epic poem composed sometime...
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Selected Poems 1966-1987
Seamus Heaney
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"Between my fingers and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I'll dig with it."
Selected Poems 1966–1987 assembles the groundbreaking work of the first half of Seamus Heaney's...
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Selected Poems 1988-2013
Seamus Heaney
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A new edition of the later selected work of a Nobel Prize-winning poet
Often considered to be "the greatest poet of our age" (The Guardian), Seamus Heaney was awarded...
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Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney
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Death of a Naturalist (1966) marked the auspicious debut of Seamus Heaney, a universally acclaimed master of modern literature. As a first book of poems, it is remarkable for its accurate...
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Door into the Dark
Seamus Heaney
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The Haw Lantern
Seamus Heaney
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This collection of thirty-one poems is Seamus Heaney's first since Station Island. The Haw Lantern is a magnificent book that further extends the range of a poet who has always put...
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Crediting Poetry
Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney's Nobel Lecture, captured here in Crediting Poetry, is a powerful defense of poetry as "the ship and the anchor" of our spirit within an ocean of violent, divisive politics and...
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Human Chain
Seamus Heaney
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A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011
Winner of the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize
Winner of the 2011 Poetry Now Award
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and...
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Field Work
FSG Classics
Seamus Heaney
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Field Work is the record of four years during which Seamus Heaney left the violence of Belfast to settle in a country cottage with his family in Glanmore, County Wicklow. Heeding "an early...
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District and Circle
Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney's new collection starts "In an age of bare hands and cast iron" and ends as "The automatic lock / clunks shut" in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their...
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The Rattle Bag
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The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected...
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Finders Keepers
Seamus Heaney
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A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the "tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureate
Whether autobiographical,...
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Electric Light
Seamus Heaney
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The powerful collection by the bestselling translator of Beowulf
In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air
That is water, on carpets of Bann stream,...
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Opened Ground
Seamus Heaney
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As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The...
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Homage to Robert Frost
Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, and Derek Walcott
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Three of our generation's greatest poets explore the misconceptions and mythologies that surround Robert Frost.
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The Spirit Level
Seamus Heaney
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The Spirit Level was the first book of poems Heaney published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Reviewing this book in The New York Times Book Review, Richard Tillinghast...
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The Redress of Poetry
Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument...
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Seeing Things
Seamus Heaney
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Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the...
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The Cure at Troy
Seamus Heaney
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The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero, Philoctetes, whom the...
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The Government of the Tongue
Seamus Heaney
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In this volume of critical essays, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic...
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Station Island
Seamus Heaney
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The title poem of this collection, set on an Irish island, tells of a pilgrim on an inner journey that leads him back into the world that formed him, and then forward to face the crises of the present....
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Sweeney Astray
Seamus Heaney
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Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into...
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Poems, 1965-1975
Seamus Heaney
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Poems, 1965-1975 collects a decade of verse from Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the "most important Irish poet since Yeats" (Robert Lowell).
This...
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Preoccupations
Seamus Heaney
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Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations, begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a...
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