This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work,taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator,and offering a more generous choice from previous volumes. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a'Collected Poems'as its author cares to make it. It replaces his New Selected Poems 1966-1987,giving a fuller selection from each of the volumes represented there and adding large parts of those that have appeared since,together with examples of his work as a translator from the Greek,Latin,Italian and other languages. The book concludes with'Crediting Poetry',the speech with which Seamus Heaney accepted the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature,awarded to him,in the words of the Swedish Academy of Letters,for his'works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth'.
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571194933Number of pages: 496Weight: 545 gDimensions: 40 x 130 x 200 mmEdition: Main
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney's passing in 2013 robbed the literary world of one of its most profound and learned voices. Born in 1939 in Northern Ireland,Heaney began publishing poetry whilst lecturing in Belfast in the 1960s,later moving to Dublin where he resided under his death.
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