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Aug 6, 2024 · 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 ...
2 days ago · Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume.
Aug 27, 2024 · His Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966–1996 was published in 1998. In Electric Light (2001) and District and Circle (2006), he returned to the Ireland of his youth. The poetry in Human Chain (2010) reflects on death, loss, regret, and memory.
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Aug 15, 2024 · Her claim is to take those ‘strongest poems’ from 1966 to 1996, chronologically covering the same terrain as Opened Ground, and to anatomize them in order to uncover their inner workings.
Aug 21, 2024 · In the Nobel address, entitled “Crediting Poetry”, Heaney takes us on the path of his endeavor to find in poetry “ an order true to the impact of external reality and…. sensitive to the inner laws of the poet’s being. ” (p 420)* While sketching the turbulence of life in Northern Ireland, Heaney notes that, “ our realism and our aesthetic sense m...
Aug 26, 2024 · Poems on this and next month’s episodes offer a variety of perspectives on work. Three pomes are featured: Jericho Brown’s “Labor”, from The New Testament (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). Seamus Heaney’s “Thatcher,” from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998).
Aug 19, 2024 · This volume contains a full selection of Keats' work, including his lyric poems, narrative poems, letters, and an index of first lines.
