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Seamus Heaney - New Selected Poems 1966-1987 - 9780571143726 - KSG0029658
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New Selected Poems 1966-1987

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Description for New Selected Poems 1966-1987 paperback. 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 "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 300. Inscribed to Édith Fournier, translator of Samuel Beckett's work, from Eoin O'Brien, friend of Beckett. Very good clean copy. Covers showing light age and shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy

This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987).

'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does.' John Banville

'More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.' John Carey

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571143726
SKU
KSG0029658
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for ... Read more

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