Seamus Heaney Forfatter
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Human Chain (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered.
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New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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.
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Beowulf (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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 mother.
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Beowulf (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by line, to the original poem.
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District and Circle (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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 language.
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New Selected Poems 1988-2013 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. This book reprints the author's chosen poems from his later years.
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Death of a Naturalist (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
On its original appearance in 1966, Death of a Naturalist won the Cholmondeley Award, a Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. 'His words give us the soil-reek of Ireland, the colourful violence of his childhood on a farm in Derry.
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The Translations of Seamus Heaney (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Collectively these bring us closer to an understanding of the genius for interpretation and transformation that distinguished Heaney as one of the great poet-translators of all time. 'The Translations .
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The Haw Lantern (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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 vein.
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Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A gathering of Seamus Heaney's prose of three decades. Whether autobiographical, topical or specifically literary, these essays and lectures circle the central preoccupying questions: How should a poet live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice and place?
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Sweeney Astray (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
"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 Moira.
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Opened Ground (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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.
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