Seamus Heaney: An Introduction (Russell Richard Rankin)(Paperback)

Seamus Heaney: An Introduction (Russell Richard Rankin)(Paperback)

This study will enable readers to gain clearer understanding of the life and major works of Seamus Heaney. It considers literary influences on Heaney, ranging from English poets such as Wordsworth, Hughes, and Auden to Irish poets such as Kavanagh and Yeats to world poets such as Virgil and

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

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 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

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

Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (O'Driscoll Dennis)(Paperback)

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 retraces Heaney's steps from his first exploratory testing of the

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

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

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

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

An Introduction to International Relations (Devetak Richard)(Paperback)

An Introduction to International Relations is a comprehensive introduction to the history, theories, developments and debates that shape the dynamic discipline of international relations and contemporary world politics. Bringing together an expert author team comprising leading academics from

An Introduction to Fund Management (Russell Ray)(Paperback)

An Introduction to Fund Management introduces readers to the economic rationale for the existence of funds, the different types available, investment strategies and many other related issues from the perspective of the investment manager. It gives an overview of the whole business and explores the

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 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

On Seamus Heaney (Foster Roy)(Pevná vazba)

A vivid and original account of one of Ireland's greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographer The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time

Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic Science, Global Edition (Saferstein Richard)(Paperback / softback)

The Long Beds (Miller Kate)(Paperback)

This second collection from Seamus Heaney Prize-winning poet Kate Miller is a meditation on dreaming and the journey from sleep to

Beowulf (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback)

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

Beowulf (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback / softback)

Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the elegaic narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel, and, later, from Grendel's

North (Heaney Seamus)(Paperback / softback)

Here 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

The Philosophy of Education: An Introduction (Bailey Richard)(Paperback)

The Philosophy of Education: An Introduction encourages the reader to actively engage with the philosophy of education and the carefully selected contributors bring the philosophy of education to life for the reader. Each chapter: focuses on a particular area of debate and explains the main

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

Managing Criminal Justice Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice (Kania Richard)(Paperback)

Managing Criminal Justice Organizations: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition, covers the formal and informal nature of the organizations involved in criminal justice. Kania and Davis provide an introduction to the administration, organization, and management of criminal justice