Seamus Heaney Best Poems - April 2024

100 Poems (Faber Poetry)

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 returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. Coinciding with the National Library of Ireland launching a major exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Seamus Heaney, 100 Poems is a singular, ... [Read More]

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

Selected Poems 1988-2013

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 with "the power to persuade the vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness in spite of the evidence of wrongness all around it, the power to remind us that we are hunters and gatherers of values." Paul Muldoon wrote that Heaney was "the only... [Read More]

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

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

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 in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-f... [Read More]

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

Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

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 sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive" (Helen Vendler, The New Yorker)--and this is a one-volume testament to the musicality and precision of that voice. The book closes with Heaney's Nobel Lecture: "Creditin... [Read More]

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

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

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).

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

North: Poems

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, and the idea of the north allows the poet to contemplate the violence on his home ground in relation to memories of the Scandinavian and English invasions which have marked Irish history so indelibly.

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

The Spirit Level: Poems

• ASIN: 0374267790
• 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)

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 audience. Cavafy was a poet of Alexandria, the city of his birth and his home throughout his adult life. At the confluence of many histories--Greek, Egyptian, Byzantine, modern European--and many religions, the city provided endless inspiration for hi... [Read More]

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

Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition

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-squareness of the utterance" in ?Beowulf ?and its immense emotional credibility Seamus Heaney gives the great epic convincing reality But how to visualize the poet's story has always been a challenge for modern-day readers. In Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition... [Read More]

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

Selected Poems 1966-1987

"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 heir to Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, and Robert Frost. Helen Vendler called Heaney "a poet of the in-between," and the work collected here dwells in the borderlands dividing the ancient and the contemporary, the mythic and the quotidian. Gathe... [Read More]

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

Human Chain: Poems

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 from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. Human Chain also broaches larger questions of transmission, of lifelines to the inherited past. There are newly minted versions of anonymous early Irish lyrics, poems that stand at the crossroads of oral and wr... [Read More]

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

The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone

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 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, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, learns that her brothers have killed each other, having been forced... [Read More]

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

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

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

#Heaney - Hashtag LED USB Rechargeable Edge Lit Sign

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 any other use you can think of.

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

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

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.

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

Stepping Stones : Interviews with Seamus Heaney

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

• UPC: 12168777
• Rating: 4.0

Stepping Stones : Interviews with Seamus Heaney. Dennis O'Driscoll

Books : Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

• UPC: 780942011
• Rating: 4.0

Best Loved Poems of American People

Collection of the most popular American poems grouped by subject including Love and friendship, Inspiration, and Faith and

• UPC: 461703
• Rating: 4.667

100 Best Poems for Children

Books : 100 Best Poems for Children (Puffin Poetry)

• UPC: 772242114
• Rating: 5.0

Seamus Heaney Collected Poems (Audiobook)

9780571349104

• UPC: 533978288

The Spirit Level : Poems

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, Richard Tillinghast noted that Heaney

• UPC: 28727203
• Rating: 5.0

Study and Revise for AS/A-level: Seamus Heaney: New Selected Poems, 1966-1987 - eBook

Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion; designed to instil in-depth textual understanding as students read, analyse and revise Seamus Heaney: Selected Poems throughout the course.This

• UPC: 933440822

Seamus Heaney (Text Only) - eBook

A dazzling short assessment of the life and work of the poet and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature. Among Heaney’s many published collections are ‘Death of a Naturalist’, ‘North’, ‘Field Work’, ‘Station

• UPC: 997742468

Human Chain : Poems

A new collection of poetry examines connections between individuals and how time can change the nature of

• UPC: 16000466
• Rating: 5.0

Opened Ground : Selected Poems, 1966-1996

The Nobel laureate's definitive selection of his poems captures the unique qualities of down-to-earth and concrete imagery, lilting rhythms, and artistic eloquence of one of the century's leading

• UPC: 665565
• Rating: 5.0