Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney

Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

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Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

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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: "Crediting Poetry."

Book Details
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:
9780374526788
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
464
Authors:
Seamus Heaney
Published Date:
1999-10-25
Language:
English
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About Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) was born on a farm in County Derry, Northern Ireland, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His debut collection, Death of a Naturalist (Faber and Faber, 1966), was followed by Field Work (Faber and Faber, 1979) and Station Island (Faber and Faber, 1984). His translation of Beowulf (Faber and Faber, 1999) won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. He taught at Harvard University and served as Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1989 to 1994.

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