The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987, Paperback - Seamus Heaney

Reducere. In this volume of critical essays, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wis...

Reducere. Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations, begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in No...

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 col...

Reducere. A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the "tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laure...

Seamus Heaney's death in August 2013 brought to completion his body of work, and scholars are only now coming to understand the full scale and impo...

Devised with the help of expert examiners and teachers, an easy-to-use literature study guide which aims to provide students with a better understa...

Reducere. A new edition of the later selected work of a Nobel Prize-winning poetOften considered to be "the greatest poet of our age" (The Guardian), Seamus ...

Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher the prospect of a companion volume to his landmark New Selected Poems ...

Reducere. Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself...

He proceeds to explore how this 'redress' manifests itself in a diverse range of poems and poets, including Christopher Marlowe's 'Hero and Leander...

Reducere. DescriptionThe photos in this edition are black and white. The General Motors G-Body is one of the manufacturer's most popular chassis, and include...

The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backg...

A rich body of mythology and literature has grown around the Celtic ritual known as the Feis of Tara or ""marriage of sovereignty"". This book expl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Seamus HeaneyThe Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Written in the fifth century BC, this p...

With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing, these poems graphically depict the author's ...

Reducere. The Spirit Level was the first book of poems Heaney published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Reviewing this book in The New Y...

Corcoran's 1986 }Student's Guide To Seamus Heaney{ has been substantially updated and revised to take into account the last ten years, which includ...

Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocl...

Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun. -- from 'Digging'With its lyrical and descriptive powers, Death of a Naturalist m...

With this collection, first published in 1975, Heaney located a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland--its people, history, and ...

Compiles the history of the Donegal pilgrimage as presented in historical texts, guidebooks, popular writing, devotional treatises, and newspaper a...

This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the series of 12-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-imagine experience...

A collection of Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney's prose over three decades. Essays and lectures including }Preoccupations, The Government Of The Tong...

At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes appar...

An updated edition of Heaney's New Selected Poems 1966-1987, which has been expanded to include pieces from his two most recent collections; Seeing...

Paperback edition of the Nobel Prize winning Heaney's 12th collection of poems, which won the Forward Poetry Prize 2010 and was shortlisted for the...

First published in 1978, this work contains poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the ...

"Sweeney Astray" is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work "Buile Suibhne". Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial ad...

The poems in Seamus Heaney's collection The Spirit Level keep discovering the possibilities of 'a new beginning' in all kinds of subjects and circu...

Reducere. Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along wit...

Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature...

Heaney's final work was a unique take on Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid, following the Troy exile and Rome founder's descent into the underworld. Heane...

Reducere. Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventu...

Including a number of prose poems and translations, this book offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the...

Reducere. Selected poems from a Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney had the idea to make a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing lif...