Heaney, Seamus

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Debateable Land, The
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Place of Writing
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Door into the Dark
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"Door into the Dark, Heaney's second collection of poems, first appeared in 1969. Already his widely celebrated gifts of precision, thoughtfulness, and... More about this book >>
District and Circle
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Starts 'in an ageof bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock/clunks shut' in the eerie conditions of a menaced twentieth-first century.... More about this book >>
Field Work
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At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence that concentrates themes apparent elswehere... More about this book >>
Sweeney Astray
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"Sweeney Astray" is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work "Buile Suibhne". Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures... More about this book >>
Government of the Tongue, The
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Heaney here scrutinizes the work of several poets, British and Irish, American and European, whose work he considers might call into question the rights... More about this book >>
Cure at Troy, The
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Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' "Philoctetes" dramatizes the conflict between personal integrity and political expediency and explores ways in which... More about this book >>
Sweeney's Flight
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Photos set the stage for a new version of the tale of Sweeney, who is turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. More about this book >>
Poems
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Redress of Poetry, The
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Delivered while Heaney was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, these lectures cover subjects as diverse as Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol" and Marlowe's "Hero... More about this book >>
Finders Keepers
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"How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and to his contemporary... More about this book >>
Opened Ground
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An updated version of Seamus Heaney's"New Selected Poems 1966-1987", which has been expanded to include work from two subsequent collections,"Seeing Things"and... More about this book >>
Preoccupations
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Diary of One Who Vanished, The
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Heaney was commissioned by English National Opera to produce this translation of Leos Janacek's song cycle "The Diary of One Who Vanished". The story is... More about this book >>
North
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Brief poems consider sunlight, myths, death, the past, ancient rituals, courtship, dreams, and justice. More about this book >>
Talking with Poets
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Haw Lantern, The
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First published in 1978, this work contains poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's... More about this book >>
Shiver, A
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Death of a Naturalist
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Reissues Seamus Heaney's collection, which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award, the E C Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and... More about this book >>
Opened Ground
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A reissue of Heaney's "New Selected Poems 1966-1987", which has been expanded to include work from two subsequent collections, "Seeing Things" and the... More about this book >>
Beowulf
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Composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, this work is the narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from... More about this book >>
Electric Light
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Heaney's new collection travels widely in space and time, visiting the sites of the classical wor ld, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification... More about this book >>
Spirit Level, The
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A collection of poems from the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. The poems discover the possibility of a new beginning in many subjects and... More about this book >>
New Selected Poems, 1966-87
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An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from... More about this book >>
 
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