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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.914
EAN: 9780374258689
ISBN: 0374258686
Label: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Publication Date: 1990-08
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Sales Rank: 1948933
Studio: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
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Product Description:
/Seamus Heaney Provides a retrospective view of the achievement to date of one of the most highly regarded and eagerly read poets of our time, a poet who has made his mark throughout t.
Amazon.com Review:
Seamus Heaney was the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize, and this collection reveals the range, sureness, and quality of his achievements. Includes the complete and revised version of his long poem, 'Station Island,' as well as a number of prose poems previously unpublished in the U.S.
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Rating:  - Excellent
Seamus Heaney is an Irish treasure in literature. His works display the "concrete reality" that he aimed for in his poetry. My favorite poem is "Digging". He is talented in fusing agric./pol./soc./religion themes together in one poem.
Rating:  - good portrait of Heaney's development
Heaney's "Selected Poems" shows a good picture of the poet's development up to "Station Island" and the sonnets of Glanmore and Clearances. Like Yeats, Heaney had to go through a few volumes before he "became good": except for "The Tolland Man," the poems selected from his first four collections are flat, even the much-anthologized "Digging," which perseveres in anthologies only because it illustrates Heaney's overall philosophy. With the bog poems from "North," Heaney comes into his own, and ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 821.914
EAN: 9780374258689
ISBN: 0374258686
Label: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Manufacturer: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Publication Date: 1990-08
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Sales Rank: 1948933
Studio: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)