| Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 Contributor(s): Heaney, Seamus (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374528780 ISBN-13: 9780374528782 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2003 Annotation: A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the " tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureate Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney' s career: " How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage, and the contemporary world?" Along with a selection from Heaney' s three previous collections of prose ("Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, "and "The Redress of Poetry"), the present volume includes a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in books, ranging from formal lectures to radio commentaries about the rural Ireland of his childhood to illuminating reviews of his contemporaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets-- Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors, fellows, and successors-- "Finders Keepers" becomes, as its title heralds, " an announcement of both excitement and possession." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 828.914 |
| LCCN: 2002101044 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (1.20 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the tenacious curiosity (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureate Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage, and the contemporary world? Along with a selection from Heaney's three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, and The Redress of Poetry), the present volume includes a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in books, ranging from formal lectures to radio commentaries about the rural Ireland of his childhood to illuminating reviews of his contemporaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets--Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors, fellows, and successors--Finders Keepers becomes, as its title heralds, an announcement of both excitement and possession. |
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." |