Sweeney Astray, Paperback - Seamus Heaney

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

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of ...

The long poem is preceded by a section of shorter lyrics and leads into a third group of poems in which the poet's voice is at one with the voice o...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Roy FosterNumber of pages: 248Collection: Writers on WritersPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 112 x...

Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an int...

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...

Reducere. "Field Work" is the record of four years during which Seamus Heaney left the violence of Belfast to settle in a country cottage with his family in ...

Reducere. The title poem of this collection, set on an Irish island, tells of a pilgrim on an inner journey that leads him back into the world that formed hi...

This book combines historicizing scholarship with analytical depth and insightful new readings of Heaney's work. The thematic sections offer differ...

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 ...

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. The powerful collection by the bestselling translator of BeowulfIn the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on airThat is water, on carpets of B...

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...

Reducere. Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marve...

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 condi...

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

This study will enable readers to gain clearer understanding of the life and major works of Seamus Heaney. It considers literary influences on Hean...

From his remarkable debut in 1966, Seamus Heaney pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural and political change, and was aw...

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

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies, but no book-length portrait has ap...

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...

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...

This book presents a comprehensive and dynamic engagement of the work of Seamus Heaney, examining his poetry in relation to the other roles he assu...

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...

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...

Reducere. A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate.Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beow...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...