Seamus Heaney
Author
Language
English
Description
Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
In this collection, as ever with Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects -- a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing -- are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
Poems from Heaney's four collections that are no longer available in the United States: "Death of a naturalist" (1966), "Door into the dark" (1969), "Wintering out" (1972) and "North" (1975). Seven poems that appeared in the original edition of "Death of a naturalist" are not included in this volume
5) Field work
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Collection centers on a sonnet sequence set in Glanmore, where the poet lived for four years after having left the turbulence of Belfast in 1972. Also includes love poems and elegies--in memory of Francis Ledwidge, Robert Lowell, and Sean O'Riada, among others--as well as a translation of 'Cantos XXXII' and XXXIII' from Dante's 'Inferno'."--Front flap, dust jacket
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
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 /
...Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "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 the contemporary world?"
Along with a selection from the poet's three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, and The Redress of Poetry),...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Seeing things
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Collection of poems whose themes deal with memories, textures, and sensations of the world.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
In his volume of critical essays The Government of the Tongue, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness, and we are reminded, above all, of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself.
15) The haw lantern
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Seamus Heaney describes the haw lantern as "small light for small people" but there is more than tiny illumination emanating from one of Ireland's premier poets. Heaney peppers this short collection of poems with crafty language and natural objects: "I heard the hatchet's differentiated/Accurate cut, the crack, the sigh/And collapse of what luxuriated/Through the shocked tips and wreckage of it all." The Haw Lantern won England's Whitbread Prize in...
Author
Publisher
Noonday Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Seamus Heaney's version of Philoctetes is a fast-paced, brilliant work excellently suited to the stage. Heaney keeps the majesty of the Greek original, but manages to give his verse the flavor of Irish speech and context." ... a purifying play, in the great tradition of modern Irish drama."--John Peter, The Sunday Times. --Publisher.
18) Human chain
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present--the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered.