Seamus Heaney Reads His Poem, 'Digging'

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  • 100 Poems (Faber Poetry)

    • ASIN: 0571347150
    • ISBN: 0571347150
    • Manufacturer: Faber & Faber

    Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this in his lifetime, and no edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first collection to last. But now, at last, the project has been re... [Read More]

  • Selected Poems 1988-2013

    • ASIN: 0374535612
    • ISBN: 9780374535612
    • Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    A new edition of the later selected work of a Nobel Prize-winning poetOften considered to be "the greatest poet of our age" (The Guardian), Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." He saw poetry as a vocation and credited it wi... [Read More]

  • Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

    • ASIN: 0393320979
    • ISBN: 9780393320978
    • Brand: W W Norton Company
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age i... [Read More]

  • Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

    • ASIN: 0374526788
    • ISBN: 0374526788
    • Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    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 s... [Read More]

  • Poems, 1965-1975: Death of a Naturalist / Door Into the Dark / Wintering Out / North

    • ASIN: 0374516529
    • ISBN: 0374516529
    • Manufacturer: Noonday Press

    Poems, 1965-1975 collects a decade of verse from Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the "most important Irish poet since Yeats" (Robert Lowell). This volume gathers nearly all of the poems from Heaney's first four collections: Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), and North (1975).... [Read More]

  • North: Poems

    • ASIN: 057110813X
    • ISBN: 057110813X
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    With this collection, first published in 1975, Heaney located a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland--its people, history, and landscape--and which gave his poems direction, cohesion, and cumulative power. In North, the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, a... [Read More]

  • The Spirit Level: Poems

    • ASIN: 0374267790
    • ISBN: 0374267790
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • The Canon: The Original One Hundred and Fifty-Four Poems (Hellenic Studies Series) (English and Greek Edition)

    • ASIN: 0674025865
    • ISBN: 9780674025868
    • Brand: Harvard University Press
    • Manufacturer: Center for Hellenic Studies

    This volume of 154 poems by Constantine Cavafy is the entire body of work by the artist widely considered a master of modern Greek poetry. Published only privately during his lifetime, Cavafy's poems achieved international acclaim when writers such as E. M. Forster, Laurence Durrell, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden brought his work to a worldwide aud... [Read More]

  • Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition

    • ASIN: 0393330109
    • ISBN: 0393330109
    • Brand: W W Norton Company
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    Seamus Heaney's best-selling ?Beowulf? is now wedded to more than one hundred glorious images. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf ?is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squarene... [Read More]

  • Selected Poems 1966-1987

    • ASIN: 0374535604
    • ISBN: 0374535604
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    "Between my fingers and my thumbThe squat pen rests.I'll dig with it."Selected Poems 1966–1987 assembles the groundbreaking work of the first half of Seamus Heaney's extraordinary career. This edition, arranged by the author himself, includes the seminal early poetry that struck readers with the force of revelation and heralded the arrival of an ... [Read More]

  • Human Chain: Poems

    • ASIN: 0374533008
    • ISBN: 9780374533007
    • Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    A Boston Globe Best Poetry Book of 2011Winner of the 2011 Griffin Poetry PrizeWinner of the 2011 Poetry Now AwardSeamus 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, the weight and heft of what is passed... [Read More]

  • The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone

    • ASIN: 0374530076
    • ISBN: 9780374530075
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    In this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch.Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict ... [Read More]

  • #Heaney - Adult Bella + Canvas B6035 Women's V-Neck T-Shirt, Aqua, Large

    • ASIN: B07T61ZPX5
    • Brand: Bucking Ham
    • Size: Large

    This women's deep v-neck t-shirt features a lightweight feel, ringspun cotton, and perfect printing of the logo pictured. The tee runs a bit small so we definitely recommend checking it against our size chart.

  • #Heaney - Hashtag LED USB Rechargeable Edge Lit Sign

    • ASIN: B07VPBLBRF
    • Brand: Knick Knack Gifts
    • Manufacturer: Knick Knack Gifts

    Our LED base lit sign makes a great way to say something without saying it out loud. Included with your purchase is your engraved acrylic piece, 16 color changing base, remote with batteries, rechargeable battery for the base, and an usb cable to charge the base up again. This makes a great little addition to your home, restaurant, bar, man cave or... [Read More]

  • got seamus? - 12oz Ceramic Latte Coffee Mug Cup, White

    • ASIN: B07VRMCKHK
    • Brand: Knick Knack Gifts
    • Manufacturer: Knick Knack Gifts

    This 12oz ceramic latte coffee mug makes a great gift for yourself or someone else. Premium quality ceramic and our new durable printing methond mean this mug is sure to last.

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  • Gilgamesh: A New English Version

    • ASIN: 0743261690
    • ISBN: 0743261690
    • Brand: Atria Books
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

    Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right.Acclaimed by critics and scholars, Stephen Mitchell's version allows us to enter an ancient masterpiece as if for the first time, to see how startlingly beautiful, intelligent, and aliv... [Read More]

  • Field Work: Poems (FSG Classics)

    • ASIN: B00HBQ6N7K
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

    • ASIN: 0374531935
    • ISBN: 0374531935
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies, but no book-length portrait has appeared before now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces Heaney's steps from his first exploratory testing of the ground as an infant to what he called his "moon-wal... [Read More]

  • Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

    • ASIN: 0374111197
    • ISBN: 9780374111199
    • Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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