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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, The Haw Lantern (1987).´His is ´close-up´ poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does.´ John Banville´More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but w, 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, The Haw Lantern (1987).´His is ´close-up´ poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does.´ John Banville´More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.´ John Carey, ePUB, 19.02.2009.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, W. Fraser Sandercombe.
New York: The Noonday Press - Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1996. 273 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This collection contains selections from: Death of a Naturalist - 1966; Door into the Dark - 1969; Wintering Out - 1972; Stations - 1975; North - 1975; Field Work - 1979; Sweeny Astray - 1983; Station Island - 1984; and The Haw Lantern - 1987. Herein are poems too numerous to list but some of the highlights are: Blackberry Picking; Personal Helicon; The Peninsula; Night Drive; Bog Oak; The Tollund Man; England's Difficulty; Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces; The Graubelle Man; Punishment; The Toome Road; The Guttural Muse; Sweeney's Lament on Ailsa Craig; Sandstone Keepsake; The Railway Children; and many, many more.. Seventh Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

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Selected Poems 1966-1987, "e;Between my fingers and my thumbThe squat pen rests.I´ll dig with it."e;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 "e;a poet of the in-between,"e; and the work collected here dwells in the borderlands dividing the ancient and the contemporary, the mythic and the quotidian. Gathering poetry from his first seven collections, Selected Poems 1966-1987 presents the young man from County Derry, Northern Ireland, who "e;emerged from a hidden, a buried life"e; in Death of a Naturalist (1966), with his cherished poems "e;Digging"e; and "e;Mid-term Break"e;; the poet of conscience "e;as bleak as he is bright"e; in "e;Whatever You Say Say Nothing"e; and "e;Singing School"e;; and the astonishingly gifted, mature craftsman behind Field Work (1979) and Station Island (1984)-an artist uncannily attuned to the "e;music of what happens,"e; restlessly searching "e;for images and symbols adequate to our predicament."e; This volume, together with its companion Selected Poems 1988-2013, allows us to revisit the essential work of one of the great writers of our age through his own compilation. ePUB, 13.01.2014.

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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. Gathering poetry from his first seven collections, Selected Poems 1966-1987 presents the young man from County Derry, Northern Ireland, who "emerged from a hidden, a buried life" in Death of a Naturalist (1966), with his cherished poems "Digging" and "Mid-term Break"; the poet of conscience "as bleak as he is bright" in "Whatever You Say Say Nothing" and "Singing School"; and the astonishingly gifted, mature craftsman behind Field Work (1979) and Station Island (1984)-an artist uncannily attuned to the "music of what happens," restlessly searching "for images and symbols adequate to our predicament." This volume, together with its companion Selected Poems 1988-2013, allows us to revisit the essential work of one of the great writers of our age through his own compilation.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, powellsbooks.
Seamus Heaney was the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize, and this collection reveals the range, sureness, and quality of his achievements. Includes the complete and revised version of his long poem, "Station Island," as well as a number of prose poems previously unpublished in the U.S. Hardcover, Ausgabe: First American Edition, Label: Douglas & McIntyre / Not Applicable, Douglas & McIntyre / Not Applicable, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1990-07-01, Studio: Douglas & McIntyre / Not Applicable, Verkaufsrang: 1652303.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Vanderbilt CA.
Seamus Heaney was the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize, and this collection reveals the range, sureness, and quality of his achievements. Includes the complete and revised version of his long poem, "Station Island," as well as a number of prose poems previously unpublished in the U.S. Hardcover, Ausgabe: First American Edition, Label: Douglas & McIntyre / Not Applicable, Douglas & McIntyre / Not Applicable, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1990-07-01, Studio: Douglas & McIntyre / Not Applicable, Verkaufsrang: 1652303.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Cabot and Saxon.
This selection has been made by Seamus Heaney from the volumes of his poems and translations published during the first twenty-one years of his career. It includes the complete, slightly revised version of his long poem "Station Island," as well as a number of prose poems previously unpublished in the United States. His much admired sonnet sequences, "Glanmore Sonnets" and "Clearances," are also reprinted in this book in their entirety. Includes are poems from: Death of a Naturalist (1966) Digging, Death of a Naturalist, Blueberry-Picking, Follower, Mid-Term Break, Poem, Personal Helicon; Door into the Dark (1969), Thatcher, The Pennisula, Requiem for the Croppies, The Wife's Tale, Night Drive, Relic of Memory, Bogland; Wintering Out (1972), Bog Oak, Anahorish, Gifts of Rain, Broagh, Oracle, A New Song, The Other Side, The Tollund Man, Wedding Day, Summer Home, Limbo, Bye-Child, Westering; Stations (1975), Nesting Ground, England's Difficulty, Visitant, Trial Runs, Cloistered, The Stations of the West, Incertus; North (1975), Moss baun (Sunlight, the Seed Cutters), Funeral Rites, North, Viking Dublin Trial Pieces, Bone Dreams, Bog Queen, The Grauballe Mann, Punishment, Strange Fruit, Act of Union, Hercules and Antaeus, From Whatever You Say Say Nothing, From Singing School (The Ministry of Fear, A Constable Calls, Summer 1969, Fosterage, Exposure); Field Work (1979), Oysters, Triptych (After a Killing, Sibyl, At the Waters Edge), The Toome Road, A Drink of Water, The Strand at Lough Beg, Casualty, The Badgers, The Singer's House, The Guttural Muse, Glanmore Sonnets, An Afterwards, The Otter, The Skunk, A Dream of Jealousy, From Field Work, Song, The Harvest Bow, In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge; From Sweeney Astray (1983), Sweeney Praises the Trees, Sweeney Astry, Sweeney's Lament on Ailsa Craig, Sweeney in Connacht, Sweeney's Last Poem. Also, many poems from the following collections: Station Island; The Haw Lantern. Notes, Index of Titles, Index of First Lines. Paperback, Ausgabe: 1, Label: Noonday, 1995, Noonday, 1995, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1995, Studio: Noonday, 1995, Verkaufsrang: 2334706.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, hippo_books.
/Seamus Heaney Provides a retrospective view of the achievement to date of one of the most highly regarded and eagerly read poets of our time, a poet who has made his mark throughout t. Hardcover, Label: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1990-08, Studio: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), Verkaufsrang: 1324692.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Southern Maryland Books.
/Seamus Heaney Provides a retrospective view of the achievement to date of one of the most highly regarded and eagerly read poets of our time, a poet who has made his mark throughout t. Hardcover, Label: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1990-08, Studio: Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), Verkaufsrang: 1324692.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Glover's Bookery, ABAA, KY, Lexington, [RE:4].
8.80 X 6 X 0.80 inches, Paperback.