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Art of Seamus Heaney, The
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Between the Lines Seamus Heaney in Conversation with Karl Miller
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Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Past Poetic: Archaeology in the Poetry of W.B.Yeats and Seamus Heaney
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Faber and Faber District and Circle
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Vanderbilt University Press Castings: Monuments and Monumentality in Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Derek Walcott, and Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney
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The Liffey Press Seamus Heaney: Creating Irelands of the Mind
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Selected Poems from Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney
Building on the formula of "York Notes", this Advanced series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. The notes enable students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the text and to develop their own critical thinking. author: Macrae, Alasdair D.F.; publisher: Longman
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Faber and Faber Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996
In Digging, the first poem in <I>Opened Ground</I>, Heaney likens his pen to both spade and gun. With these metaphors in place, he makes clear his difficult poetic task: to delve into the past, both personal and historic, while remaining ever mindful of the potentially fatal power of language. Born and raised in Northern Ireland, where any hint of Gaelic tradition in one's speech was considered a political act, Heaney is all too aware of the dire consequences of speaking one's mind. Indeed, during times of crisis, he has been expected to appear on television and dispense political wisdom. Most often, however, he stays out of the fray and opts for a supreme sense of empathy to guide his words. <p> As excavator--of earth, of his beloved Gaelic, of his own life--Heaney is unmatched. In Bone Dreams, the archaeologist's task is synonymous with reaching for a cultural past: <blockquote> I push back <br> through dictions,<br> Elizabethan canopies,<br> Norman devices,<br><br> the erotic mayflowers<br> of Provence<br> and the ivied Latins<br> of churchmen<br><br> to the scop's<br> twang, the iron <br> flash of consonants<br> cleaving the line.</blockquote> And in early poems like Blackberry Picking, Heaney's images--deftly, delightfully--carry us back to childhood fields: <blockquote> At first, just one, a glossy purple clot<br> Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.<br> You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet<br> Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it<br> Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for<br> Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger<br> Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam pots<br> Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots.<br> Round hayfields, cornfields and potato drills<br> We trekked and picked until the cans were full...</blockquote> <I>Opened Ground</I> is a pleasure and a triumph. These three decades of work confirm Heaney as one of the most important poets of his time. --<I>Martha Silano</I>
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Faber and Faber The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures
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Palgrave Macmillan The Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Icon Reader's Guides to Essential Criticism S.)
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Seren Books The Art of Seamus Heaney
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Longman York Notes on Seamus Heaney and Gillian Clark (York Notes S.)
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Faber and Faber The Spirit Level
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Town House Anything Can Happen: Translations Inspired by Seamus Heaney and Horace
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Faber and Faber Field Work
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Faber and Faber Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-78
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Faber and Faber Seeing Things
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Faber and Faber Sweeney Astray
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Faber and Faber Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001
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Faber and Faber Electric Light
Seamus Heaney's 11th collection of poems, <I>Electric Light</I> continues his excavation of childhood, his vivifying love of nature and his quest into the meaning of poetry itself in an utterly pleasurable and satisfying way. As the poet squares up to his own mortality, many of the poems are dedicated to the memory of lost friends and poets, such as Joseph Brodsky, and yet the urgency and optimism of new birth is a lively and forceful presence in the book too. Bann Valley Eclogue prophesises a time when old markings/ Will avail no more to keep east bank from west./ The valley will be washed like the new baby. In Out of the Bag, the child narrator believes that the doctor brings the newborn from his lined bag. The doctor, like a hypnotist unwinding us is cloaked in luxury in his camel coat with its spaniel-coloured, fur-lined collar and like a god, he makes baby's bits appear strung neatly from a line up near the ceiling--A toe, a foot and shin, an arm, a cock/ A bit like the rosebud in his buttonhole. Childhood is an unfading, unfailing source in Heaney's work and is caught with a breathless vitality, that is both earthed and heady. The Real Names revisits the schoolboys who played Shakespeare: Owen Kelly as Sperrins Caliban with turnip fists and some junior-final day-boy as Miranda. Catatonic Bobby X plays Feste, With his curled-in shoulders and cabbage-water eyes/speechlessly rocking... Me in attendance, watching sorrow's elf/ Bow his head and hunch and stay beyond us... This poem has the humour, exactness, scope and tenderness of Heaney at his best. His language is as muscular and inventive as ever. He subverts the verb waver into a noun in Perch and idiom meets innovation in words such as rut-shuddery, flood-slubs and adoze. His address achieves great inclusiveness, extending the local to the universal, invoking the people who first named his world, and granting them meaning and place in the wider one. He seeks to be surefooted, to reach a clarity of understanding, asking in the wonderfully satiric Known World, How does the real get into the made-up? Once more, Heaney demonstrates with humility, grace and lightness how poetry can hold/ In the everything flows and steady go of the world.--<I>Cherry Smyth</I>
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Editions Rodopi B.V. The Flight of the Vernacular: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress of Dante (CrossCultures S.)
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Palgrave Macmillan Seamus Heaney (New Casebooks S.)
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Farrar Straus Giroux The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes
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Farrar Straus Giroux District and Circle: Poems
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Faber and Faber Station Island
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Faber and Faber Sweeney's Flight
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Faber and Faber New Selected Poems, 1966-87
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Faber and Faber Wintering Out
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Faber and Faber The Government of the Tongue
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Faber and Faber Opened Ground: Poems, 1966-96
In Digging, the first poem in <I>Opened Ground</I>, Heaney likens his pen to both spade and gun. With these metaphors in place, he makes clear his difficult poetic task: to delve into the past, both personal and historic, while remaining ever mindful of the potentially fatal power of language. Born and raised in Northern Ireland, where any hint of Gaelic tradition in one's speech was considered a political act, Heaney is all too aware of the dire consequences of speaking one's mind. Indeed, during times of crisis, he has been expected to appear on television and dispense political wisdom. Most often, however, he stays out of the fray and opts for a supreme sense of empathy to guide his words. <p> As excavator--of earth, of his beloved Gaelic, of his own life--Heaney is unmatched. In Bone Dreams, the archaeologist's task is synonymous with reaching for a cultural past: <blockquote> I push back <br> through dictions,<br> Elizabethan canopies,<br> Norman devices,<br><br> the erotic mayflowers<br> of Provence<br> and the ivied Latins<br> of churchmen<br><br> to the scop's<br> twang, the iron <br> flash of consonants<br> cleaving the line.</blockquote> And in early poems like Blackberry Picking, Heaney's images--deftly, delightfully--carry us back to childhood fields: <blockquote> At first, just one, a glossy purple clot<br> Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.<br> You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet<br> Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it<br> Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for<br> Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger<br> Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam pots<br> Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots.<br> Round hayfields, cornfields and potato drills<br> We trekked and picked until the cans were full...</blockquote> <I>Opened Ground</I> is a pleasure and a triumph. These three decades of work confirm Heaney as one of the most important poets of his time. --<I>Martha Silano</I>
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Faber and Faber Electric Light
Seamus Heaney's 11th collection of poems, <I>Electric Light</I> continues his excavation of childhood, his vivifying love of nature and his quest into the meaning of poetry itself in an utterly pleasurable and satisfying way. As the poet squares up to his own mortality, many of the poems are dedicated to the memory of lost friends and poets, such as Joseph Brodsky, and yet the urgency and optimism of new birth is a lively and forceful presence in the book. Bann Valley Eclogue prophesises a time when old markings / Will avail no more to keep east bank from west. / The valley will be washed like the new baby. In Out of the Bag, the child narrator believes that the doctor brings the newborn from his lined bag. The doctor, like a hypnotist unwinding us is cloaked in luxury in his camel coat with its spaniel-coloured, fur-lined collar and like a god, he makes baby's bits appear strung neatly from a line up near the ceiling--A toe, a foot and shin, an arm, a cock / A bit like the rosebud in his buttonhole. Childhood is an unfading, unfailing source in Heaney's work and is caught with a breathless vitality, that is both earthed and heady. The Real Names revisits the schoolboys who played Shakespeare: Owen Kelly as Sperrins Caliban with turnip fists and some junior-final day-boy as Miranda. Catatonic Bobby X plays Feste, With his curled-in shoulders and cabbage-water eyes / speechlessly rocking... Me in attendance, watching sorrow's elf / Bow his head and hunch and stay beyond us. This poem has the humour, exactness, scope and tenderness of Heaney at his best. His language is as muscular and inventive as ever. He subverts the verb waver into a noun in Perch and idiom meets innovation in words such as rut-shuddery, flood-slubs and adoze. His address achieves great inclusiveness, extending the local to the universal, invoking the people who first named his world, and granting them meaning and place in the wider one. He seeks to be surefooted, to reach a clarity of understanding, asking in the wonderfully satiric Known World, How does the real get into the made-up? Once more, Heaney demonstrates with humility, grace and lightness how poetry can hold / In the everything flows and steady go of the world. --<I>Cherry Smyth</I>
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Faber and Faber The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Guide
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Faber and Faber The Burial at Thebes
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Faber and Faber The Faber Yeats: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney (Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of Classic Verse S.)
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Faber and Faber The Burial at Thebes
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Faber and Faber Wordsworth: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney (Poet to Poet S.)
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Faber and Faber Death of a Naturalist
First published in 1966, this debut collection by Seamus Heaney signals the talent that was to win him the Nobel Prize in 1995. Largely addressing his rural childhood in County Derry, the volume begins with Digging, a poem which encapsulates Heaney's early concerns about roots, belonging and the supple joy of language. As he watches his father digging the flowerbed, he recalls him working the potato drills and lines of turf 20 years before. By God, the old man could handle a spade. / Just like his old man. Heaney is renowned for getting inside language and revelling in its sensual glut. He talks of the squelch and slap / Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge / Through living roots. He too severs roots, being the first generation not to depend on the land. But I've no spade to follow men like them. / Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests. / I'll dig with it. Heaney has the bewildering genius of being loose and tight at the same time, conversational and colloquial as well as formally rigorous. He's equally at home and as wildly inventive in blank and rhyming verse. In <I>Death of a Naturalist</I>, he takes the reader to the festering flax-dam where bluebottles / Wove a strong gauze of sound around the smell and he gathered the warm thick slobber / Of frogspawn. He delights in excess, in textures--a glossy purple clot of ripe blackberry, its flesh like thickened wine. For the Commander of the <I>Eliza</I> is savage in its depiction of the famine: Six grown men with gaping mouths and eyes / Bursting the sockets like spring onions in drills. The captain of the ship refuses to give out food on Whitehall's orders. In At a Potato Digging, Heaney compares contemporary potato-gatherers at their seasonal altar of the sod and the piles of spuds, live skulls, blind-eyed to those who wolfed the blighted root and died. He renders the famine unavoidably stark and present. Almost every poem demonstrates his resourceful, elastic use of language and Heaney ably achieves what he aims to do: I rhyme / To see myself, to set the darkness echoing. --<I>Cherry Smyth</I>
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Longman Selected Poems from Opened Ground by Seamus Heaney (York Notes Advanced S.)
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Northcote House Publishers Ltd Seamus Heaney (Writers & Their Work S.)
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Univ.Coll.Swansea Joy or Night?: Last Things in the Poetry of W.B.Yeats and Philip Larkin (W.D.Thomas Memorial Lecture)
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Ulster Local History Trust Debateable Land, The: Ireland's Border Counties
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Baker Book House Co ,U.S. Place of Writing
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The Gallery Press Crediting Poetry
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Faber and Faber Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001
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Philip Allan Updates Seamus Heaney, Gillian Clarue Pre-1914 Poetry: GCSE Student Text Guide (Student Text Guides S.)
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