| Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 Contributor(s): Heaney, Seamus (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374526788 ISBN-13: 9780374526788 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1999 Annotation: The definitive choice of the Nobel laureate's best poems, bringing the reader up to date with the work Heaney has published since 1987. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Poetry | European - French - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 821.914 |
| LCCN: 98004331 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.6" W x 8.2" (1.05 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 1970's - Chronological Period - 1980's - Chronological Period - 1990's - Cultural Region - British Isles - Ethnic Orientation - Irish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Heaney, Seamus: - Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats." |