Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
by:
Seamus Heaney (author)
As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and Sweeney Astray, and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no...
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As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and Sweeney Astray, and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other--"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive" (Helen Vendler, The New Yorker)--and this is a one-volume testament to the musicality and precision of that voice. The book closes with Heaney's Nobel Lecture: "Crediting Poetry."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374526788 (0374526788)
ASIN: 374526788
Publish date: October 25th 1999
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Irish Literature,
Contemporary,
College,
Ireland,
Poetry,
Modern Classics,
Nobel Prize
I picked this book to comply with the Literary Awards Mini Challenge from the 2013 Reading Challenge group to read a book by an author who has received the Nobel Prize in Literature. I went through the list and ended up with Seamus Heaney. He wrote in English and I haven't read a lot of poetry.I did...
Sad day for the rest of us. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/31/arts/seamus-heaney-acclaimed-irish-poet-dies-at-74.html?emc=edit_na_20130830&_r=0_____________________________________It's the time of year when everything brings this poem into my head. I think Seamus Heaney has a brilliant ability to ...
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