| Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978 Contributor(s): Heaney, Seamus (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374516502 ISBN-13: 9780374516505 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1981 Annotation: 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 Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 821.009 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.52" W x 8.52" (0.68 lbs) 224 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin. |
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." |