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Aeneid Book VI (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld.
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The Burial at Thebes (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone -... Læs mere
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The Spirit Level (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The poems in Seamus Heaney's collection The Spirit Level keep discovering the possibilities of 'a new beginning' in all kinds of subjects and circumstances. What is at stake, in poem after poem, is the chance of buoyancy and balance, physical, spiritual and political.
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Seeing Things (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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... Læs mere
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Wintering Out (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
'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 maturity.
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The Cure at Troy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
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... Læs mere
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Door into the Dark (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing, these poems graphically depict the author's rural upbringing, from the local... Læs mere
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Government of the Tongue (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and is meant to raise an old question about the rights and status of poetic utterance itself.
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Electric Light (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime.
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The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables: Translated by Seamus Heaney (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A work of unreconciled Shakespearean intensity, the Testament has been translated by Seamus Heaney into a confident and yet faithful... Læs mere
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Station Island (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The long poem is preceded by a section of shorter lyrics and leads into a third group of poems in which the poet's voice is at one with the voice of the legendary mad King Sweeney.... Læs mere
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