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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571230419
Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegaic narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571203765
In his new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true, line by line, to the original poem, and an expression, in its language and music...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780393320978
The national bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Award. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the classic Northern epic of a hero's triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people. The poem is about encountering the monstrous...more details Format:Paperback Pages:213
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374111199
A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:213
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571230839
Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime, To stare big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring, Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme, To see myself...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:64
Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clanks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted...more details Format:Hardback Pages:80
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571230976
Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clanks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:80
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571279418
A collection that starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. This title images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II - railway sleepers...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:96
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374530815
"District and Circle "inhabits the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory...more details Format:Paperback Pages:78
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374140922
Seamus Heaney's new collection starts "In an age of bare hands and cast iron" and ends as "The automatic lock / clunks shut" in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:78
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571101269
Originally published in 1969, Seamus Heaney's Door into the Dark continues a furrow so startlingly opened in his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966). With the sensuosness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing...more details Format:Paperback Pages:64
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571207985
Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. This is a book about origins (not least the origins of words) and oracles: the places where things start from...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374528416
The powerful collection by the bestselling translator of "Beowulf""In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air""That is water, on carpets of Bann stream...more details Format:Paperback Pages:112
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374146832
A powerful new collection by the bestselling translator of "Beowulf,""In the finland of perch, the fenland of alder, on air""That is water, on carpets of Bann stream...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:144
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571114337
At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes apparent elsewhere in the book: the individual's responsibility for his own choices...more details Format:Paperback Pages:80
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374531393
"Field Work" is the record of four years during which Seamus Heaney left the violence of Belfast to settle in a country cottage with his family in Glanmore...more details Format:Paperback Pages:80
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571210800
Finders Keepersis a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: 'How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice...more details Format:Hardback Pages:432
Finders Keepers is a gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374528782
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:464
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374154967
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 be to his own voice...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:432
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571141517
The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and is meant to raise an old question about the rights and status of poetic utterance itself. Should it be governed? Should it be the governor?Seamus Heaney here scrutinizes the work of several poets...more details Format:Paperback
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571232871
Widely praised on its first publication in 1978, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother - joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an allegorical vein....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:51
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374533007
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities--between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now--inside an intently remembered present: the stepping stones of the day...more details Format:Paperback Pages:85
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571275557
Seamus Heaney?s new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present ? the stepping stones of the day...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:96
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present--the stepping stones of the day...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:85
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571143726
This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571108138
In North Seamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people, history and landscape. Here the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience...more details Format:Paperback Pages:73
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571194933
This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator...more details Format:Paperback Pages:496
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374526788
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:464
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374516529
This volume gathers nearly all of the poems from Heaney's first four collections: "Death of a Naturalist" (1966), "Door into the Dark" (1969)...more details Format:Paperback Pages:228
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374516505
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:228
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571144693
This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled "Squarings", shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and "to credit marvels". The title poem...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374523893
"Seeing Things" (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in "The New York Times Book Review," "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571133024
The title poem from this collection is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571210091
Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571160150
Inspired by Seamus Heaney's poems, and notably by his version of the medieval Irish saga Buile Suibhne, the American photographer Rachel Giese has produced a stunning portfolio of pictures of the northern Irish landscape...more details Format:Hardcover
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780340747667
This series is designed to help students shorten revision time, remember more and obtain higher grades. This text covers themes, settings and characters...more details Format:Paperback
Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:64
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571223626
Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:64
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374530075
Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes...more details Format:Paperback Pages:79
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374117214
Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:88
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374522896
"The Cure at Troy" is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' "Philoctetes." Written in the fifth century BC, this play concerns the predicament of the outcast hero...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571204120
Heaney was commissioned by English National Opera to produce this translation of Leos Janacek's song cycle "The Diary of One Who Vanished". The story is about a young man who is lured into the forest by his sexual infatuation with a gypsy....more details Format:Paperback Pages:32
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374522209
In this volume of critical essays, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness...more details Format:Paperback Pages:196
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571225835
Conceived of as a collection of the editors' own favourite poems, The Rattle Bag has established itself as the classic anthology of our time. Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes have brought together an inspired and diverse selection...more details Format:Paperback Pages:496
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571119769
"The Rattle Bag" is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors...more details
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374524883
Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential...more details Format:Paperback Pages:236
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571175376
These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress spiritual balance and to function as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces in the world...more details Format:Paperback
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571225842
A companion to The Rattle Bag, The School Bag is an engaging and authoritative selection for the classroom.Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes have chosen an eclectic range of poets read in today's schools...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:560
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571178223
The poems in Seamus Heaney's collection The Spirit Level keep discovering the possibilities of 'a new beginning' in all kinds of subjects and circumstances. What is at stake...more details Format:Paperback Pages:80
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780374525118
"The Spirit Level" was the first book of poems Heaney published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Reviewing this book in "The New York Times Book Review...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780571101580
Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of maturity. The power of this book comes from a sense that he is reaching out towards a type of desolation and of isolation without which no imagination can be seen to have grown up.' Eavan Boland...more details Format:Paperback Pages:80
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Seamus Heaney;Sue Heaney SeamusRoberts
ISBN:9781565114272
A "New York Times" Bestseller and Whitbread Book of the Year. Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's new translation of "Beowulf" comes to life in this gripping audio. Heaney's performance reminds us that "Beowulf...more details Format:CD
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Seamus Heaney;Ozef Janacek LeosKalda
ISBN:9780374139230
A Cycle of Love Songs Translated by the Nobel Laureate"Dappled woodland light, Spring well chill and bright, Eyes like stars at night, Open knees so white.Four things death itself won't cover...more details Format:Paperback Pages:48
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William Wordsworth;Seamus Heaney
ISBN:9780060888619
From the introduction by Seamus Heaney:
Wordsworth's power over us stems from the manifest strength of his efforts to integrate several strenuous and potentially contradictory efforts. Indeed...more details Format:Paperback Pages:190
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Heaney Seamus
ISBN:9780571269228
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day...more details Format:Hardback Pages:96
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Heaney Seamus
ISBN:9780571269235
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day...more details Format:Hardback Pages:96
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Heaney Seamus
ISBN:9780141802473
This tale celebrates the hero, Beowulf, who goes to Denmark and slays the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother. He later becomes the king of Geatland...more details Format:CD-Audio Pages:3
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Heaney Seamus
ISBN:9780571247073
Seamus Heaney will turn 70 years old on 13 April 2009. To recognize and celebrate this event, Ireland's public service braodcaster RTE, supported by a Lannan Foundation grant...more details Format:CD-Audio