New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback / softback)

New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback / softback)

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

100 Poems (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback)

Selected poems from a Nobel laureateSeamus Heaney had the idea to make a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, a collection small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, but now, finally, the

Selected Poems of Seamus Heaney: York Notes for GCSE (Daly Shay)(Paperback / softback)

York Notes Advanced offers a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduces students to more

Seeing Things (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback / softback)

This collection of Seamus Heaney's work, especially in the series of 12-line poems entitled 'Squarings', shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and 'to credit marvels'. The title poem is typical in that it begins with memories of an actual event, then moves towards the

Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables - Translated by Seamus Heaney (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback / softback)

A work of unreconciled Shakespearean intensity, the Testament has been translated by Seamus Heaney into a confident and yet faithful modern English idiom which honours the poem's unique blend of detachment and compassion.A master of narrative, Henryson was also a comic master of the verse

Haw Lantern (Heaney Seamus)(Pevná vazba)

Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother - joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in

100 Poems (Heaney Seamus)(Pevná vazba)

Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. But now, finally, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and

Haw Lantern (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback / softback)

First published in 1978, this work contains poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother - joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an allegorical

District and Circle (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback / softback)

Including a number of prose poems and translations, this book offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited

Wintering Out (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback / softback)

'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable themes of

Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Corcoran Neil)(Paperback / softback)

The new edition, which like the original has had the advantage of Seamus Heaney's own cooperation and unstinted access to the poet's papers, follows the same pattern, adding a chapter apiece on the major collections of poems published since 1986, as well as separate discussions of Heaney's work as

New Selected Poems: Eavan Boland (Boland Eavan)(Paperback / softback)

New and selected poems by Ireland's most acclaimed contemporary female

New and Selected Poems (Casling Dennis)(Paperback / softback)

Selected and New Poems (Hope Warren)(Paperback / softback)

Stepping Stones - Interviews with Seamus Heaney (O'Driscoll Dennis (freelance))(Paperback / softback)

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical

Cure at Troy (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback / softback)

A version of Sophocles' Philoctetes that tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to realise they cannot win the Trojan war without Philoctetes' invincible bow, and turn back to seek his

The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966 (Bukowski Charles)(Paperback)

New Selected Poems (Levine Philip)(Paperback)

Philip Levine's New Selected Poems replaces Selected Poems (1984) by adding to it a generous choice of major work from each of the two volumes that followed it: Sweet Will (1985) and A Walk With Tom Jefferson

Death of a Naturalist (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback / softback)

For the fortieth anniversary of its publication, in May 2006, Faber are reissuing Seamus Heaney's classic first collection, Death of a Naturalist, which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award, the

Sweeney Astray (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback / softback)

'Sweeney Astray' is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work 'Buile Suibhne'. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a demented flying creature at the Battle of

Notebook 1967-68: Poems (Lowell Robert)(Paperback)

A pivotal book in Robert Lowell's groundbreaking career, Notebook is, as Seamus Heaney has written, a massive accumulation of unrhymed sonnets, poems of immeditae, unprepossessing, blunt-edged force, which record not so much the public events of the late 1960s] as the reactions which the events

The Redress of Poetry (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback)

Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: 'To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential, a motion of the soul.' Throughout this

Selected Poems (Luis Borges Jorge)(Paperback / softback)

New and Selected Poems (Hughes Ted)(Paperback / softback)

This volume replaced Ted Hughes's Selected Poems 1957-1981. It contains a larger selection from the same period, to which are added poems from more recent books, uncollected poems from each decade of Ted Hughes's writing life, and some new