The Poems of Seamus Heaney - (Hardcover)

About the Book

"This definitive collection of Seamus Heaney's poetry, published in a single volume for the first time, gives us the full arc of the Nobel laureate's long and varied career"-- Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

This definitive collection of Seamus Heaney's poetry, published in a single volume for the first time, gives us the full arc of the Nobel laureate's long and varied career.

Seamus 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). Published in a single volume for the first time, the collected poems of Heaney is a testament to that unforgettable voice, and to the breadth and beauty of the Nobel laureate's long and brilliant career, from his first book, Death of a Naturalist (1966), to poems written for Human Chain (2010), his twelfth and final book.

Review Quotes

"Seamus Heaney's genius included a gift for dealing with binary conflicts, large-scale or personal or some of each. The fire of his ambition as an artist was balanced by a cool sense of absurdity, with flashes of gentle self-mockery. " --Robert Pinsky, New York Times Book Review

"Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. . . . The Poems of Seamus Heaney opens up the story of a great poet's development while preserving his best work as it was originally published. My gratitude to Heaney matches my thanks to his editors and his family, who have hatched this extraordinary book." --David Mason, The Wall Street Journal

"We urgently need Heaney's moral clarity and profound nuance, his capacity to embody the earthiness of the Earth in words, his bottomless knowledge of the history of language, which connects us across the ages like a mycelial network. This is one of the books of our time." -- Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR

About the Author

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."