S. Heaney, Author, Seamus Heaney, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $75 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-26780-3
As the title suggests, this new collection from the 1995 winner of the Nobel Prize is a study in balance. Heaney reveals how simple things, such as a thimble or a swing, can hold the weight of history-and how history can alter the emotional weight...
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Fluent, enjoyable and often masterful, this 11th book of verse from the Irish Nobel Laureate splits neatly in two. The first, larger and more varied half of the volume gathers translations and adaptations, occasional and celebratory poems, and...
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Seamus Heaney, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $30 (432p) ISBN 978-0-374-15496-7
Ireland's most recent Nobel laureate offers up many old, and some new, critical and autobiographical essays in this invitingly capacious volume, which reprints most of his previous books of prose, from Preoccupations
(1980) to the Oxford...
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Seamus Heaney, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $20 (78p) ISBN 978-0-374-14092-2
The latest from the Irish Nobel laureate may be his best in more than a decade. Celebrations of everyday objects (a fireman's helmet, a sledgehammer, an anvil), homages to and elegies for other poets (George Seferis, Pablo Neruda, Czeslaw Milosz)
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Seamus Heaney, Author Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc $27 (213p) ISBN 978-0-374-11119-9
When the great monster Grendel comes to Denmark and dashes its warriors' hopes, installing himself in their great hall and eating alive the valiant lords, the hero Beowulf arrives from over the ocean to wrestle the beast. He saves the Danes, who...
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Seamus Heaney, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $14 (124p) ISBN 978-0-374-51935-3
Heaney (Field Work and Preoccupations) draws on the culture of his native Ireland for this collection. Included are short lyrical verses, a long poem in which Heaney confronts ghosts from his past, and a piece about seventh century Ulster King...
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Seamus Heaney, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $17.95 (225p) ISBN 978-0-374-16578-9
The 20th century saw the emergence of the poet as witnessvoicing solidarity with the doomed, the victimized, the dispossessed. Irish poet Heaney here gauges this trend in essays on Wilfred Owen, Osip Mandelstam, Zbigniew Herbert. He admits that the...
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Seamus Heaney, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $19 (112p) ISBN 978-0-374-25776-7
Suggestively framed by the poet's translations of excerpts from the Aeneid and the Inferno , this collection combines Heaney's richly textured style with visionary intent: the desire to invoke his dead father. Just as Aeneas begs for one meeting...
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Seamus Heaney, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18 (81p) ISBN 978-0-374-26779-7
As the title suggests, this new collection from the 1995 winner of the Nobel Prize is a study in balance. Heaney reveals how simple things, such as a thimble or a swing, can hold the weight of history-and how history can alter the emotional weight...
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Seamus Heaney, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $30 (96p) ISBN 978-0-374-97525-8
As the title suggests, this new collection from the 1995 winner of the Nobel Prize is a study in balance. Heaney reveals how simple things, such as a thimble or a swing, can hold the weight of history-and how history can alter the emotional weight...
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Seamus Heaney, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (512p) ISBN 978-0-374-23517-8
For those few readers of poetry unfamiliar with the Nobel laureate's work, and for others who wish for up-to-date representative samplings from a prolific career, this new volume from Heaney will be just the ticket, perhaps the poetry stocking-stuffe
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Seamus Heaney, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-24853-6
The 10 essays on poetry collected here, adapted from lectures delivered at Oxford between 1989 and 1994, display much of the intellectual restlessness, linguistic wizardry and political conscience that have shaped Heaney's own poetry. His thesis is...
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Seamus Heaney. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $50 (704p) ISBN 978-0-374-27773-4
These 101 texts across 14 languages demonstrate how vital a role translation played in the imagination of Nobel Laureate Heaney (1939–2013). As the introduction notes, Heaney began translating before the publication of his 1966 debut, Death of a...
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