"Door into the Dark, Heaney's second collection of poems, first appeared in 1969. Already his widely celebrated gifts of precision, thoughtfulness, and...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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