Selected Poems 1988-2013

Selected Poems 1988-2013
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780374535612
ISBN-13 : 0374535612
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Selected Poems 1988-2013 by : Seamus Heaney

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 the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." He saw poetry as a vocation and credited it with "the power to persuade the vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of wrongness all around it, the power to remind us that we are hunters and gatherers of values." Paul Muldoon wrote that Heaney was "the only poet I can think of who was recognized worldwide as having moral as well as literary authority." Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney began to compile Selected Poems 1988–2013, and although he was unable to complete the project, his choices have been followed here. This volume encapsulates the finest work from Seeing Things (1991) with its lines of loss and revelation; The Spirit Level (1996) where we experience "the poem as ploughshare that turns time / Up and over."; the landmark translation of Beowulf (1999); Electric Light (2001), a book of origins and oracles; and his final collections, District and Circle (2006) and Human Chain (2010), which limn the interconnectedness of being, our lifelines to our inherited past.

100 Poems

100 Poems
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 175
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ISBN-10 : 9780374720117
ISBN-13 : 0374720118
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis 100 Poems by : Seamus Heaney

Selected poems from a Nobel laureate In 100 Poems, readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, and will discover new favorites, from "The Cure at Troy" to "Death of a Naturalist." It is a singular and welcoming anthology, reaching far and wide, for now and for years to come. Seamus Heaney had the idea to make a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, a collection small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, but now, finally, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. No other selection of Heaney’s poems exists that has such a broad range, drawing from the first to the last of his prizewinning collections.

Seeing Things

Seeing Things
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 109
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ISBN-10 : 9781466855731
ISBN-13 : 1466855738
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Seeing Things by : Seamus Heaney

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 hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven." Along with translations from the Aeneid and the Inferno, this book offers several poems about Seamus Heaney's late father.

Stepping Stones

Stepping Stones
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 576
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ISBN-10 : 9780374269838
ISBN-13 : 0374269831
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Stepping Stones by : Dennis O'Driscoll

Chronicles the life of twentieth-century Irish poet Seamus Heaney, from his infancy to his Nobel Prize in 1995, and also discusses his post-Nobel life, family, writings, and other related topics.

District and Circle

District and Circle
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 109
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ISBN-10 : 9781466855496
ISBN-13 : 1466855495
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis District and Circle by : Seamus Heaney

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 haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II – railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the "heavyweight / Silence" of "Cattle out in rain" – are colored by a strongly contemporary sense that "Anything can happen," and other images from the dangerous present – a journey on the Underground, a melting glacier – are fraught with this same anxiety. But District and Circle, which includes a number of prose poems and translations, offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. In a sequence like "The Tollund Man in Springtime" and in several poems which "do the rounds of the district" – its known roads and rivers and trees, its familiar and unfamiliar ghosts – the gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection. With more relish and conviction than ever, Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals. District and Circle is the winner of the 2007 Poetry Now award and the 2006 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.

The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney

The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9780521838825
ISBN-13 : 0521838827
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney by : Bernard O'Donoghue

An up-to-date overview of Heaney's career thus far, with detailed readings of all his major publications.

Station Island

Station Island
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Publisher : Faber & Faber
Total Pages : 131
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ISBN-10 : 9780571262762
ISBN-13 : 0571262767
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Station Island by : Seamus Heaney

The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with 'the growth of a poet's mind'. The long poem is preceded by a section of shorter lyrics and leads into a third group of poems in which the poet's voice is at one with the voice of the legendary mad King Sweeney. 'Surpasses even what one might reasonably expect from this magnificently gifted poet.' John Carey, Sunday Times

Wintering Out

Wintering Out
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 88
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ISBN-10 : IND:32000007358023
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Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Wintering Out by : Seamus Heaney

Collected Later Poems, 1988-2000

Collected Later Poems, 1988-2000
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Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015061778356
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Synopsis Collected Later Poems, 1988-2000 by : Ronald Stuart Thomas

R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) is one of the major poets of the twentieth-century, the greatest Welsh poet since Dylan Thomas, and one of the finest religious poets in the English language. This substantial gathering of his late poems shows us the final flowering of a truly great poet still writing at the height of his powers in his 70s and 80s. It begins with his autobiographical sequence, The Echoes Return Slow, unavailable for many years, and also includes, Counterpoint, Mass for Hard Times, No Truce With the Furies, and his final collection, Residues.

The Redress of Poetry

The Redress of Poetry
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9781466855779
ISBN-13 : 1466855770
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis The Redress of Poetry by : Seamus Heaney

Heaney's ten lectures as Professor of Poetry at Oxford, collected here in The Redress of Poetry, explore the poetry of a wide range of writers, from Christopher Marlowe to John Clare to Oscar Wilde. Whether he concentrates on moments in the works under discussion, or is concerned to advance his general subject, Heaney's insight and eloquence are themselves of poetic order.