Heaney, Seamus 1939-

Beowulf : a new verse translation( Book )
21 editions published between 1998 and 2008 in English and held by 3,013 libraries worldwide
Written a thousand years ago, this long poem is the very first surviving piece of English literature. Join Beowulf, a young warrior, as he achieves glory by fighting and killing three fantastic monsters. This new translation, by the Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney, offers modern readers an accessible, intensely dramatic text. It amply demonstrates why this epic has spread its influence over more than a millennium of literature.

Station Island by Seamus Heaney( Book )
8 editions published between 1984 and 2004 in English and Hebrew and held by 1,541 libraries worldwide

The spirit level by Seamus Heaney( Book )
8 editions published between 1996 and 2008 in English and Greek, Modern [1453- ] and held by 1,442 libraries worldwide
In this collection, as ever with Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects -- a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing -- are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful.

Opened ground : selected poems, 1966-1996 by Seamus Heaney( Book )
1 edition published in 1998 in English and held by 1,402 libraries worldwide

Electric light by Seamus Heaney( Book )
9 editions published between 2000 and 2003 in English and Polish and held by 1,363 libraries worldwide

The redress of poetry by Seamus Heaney( Book )
5 editions published between 1990 and 2008 in English and Dutch and held by 1,267 libraries worldwide
The ten lectures reprinted [in this book] were first delivered in the course of [the author's] tenure as Professor of Poetry at Oxford between 1989 and 1994. -Pref.

Field work : [poems by Seamus Heaney( Book )
7 editions published between 1978 and 2001 in English and held by 1,215 libraries worldwide

Finders keepers : selected prose, 1971-2001 by Seamus Heaney( Book )
6 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and Polish and held by 1,125 libraries worldwide
Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world? Along with a selection from the poet's three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, and The Redress of Poetry), the present volume includes Heaney's finest lectures and a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to radio commentaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets - Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors and contemporaries - Finders Keepers is, as its title indicates, "an announcement of both excitement and possession. -Dust jacket.

District and circle by Seamus Heaney( Book )
5 editions published between 2005 and 2007 in English and held by 1,091 libraries worldwide

Seeing things by Seamus Heaney( Book )
7 editions published between 1991 and 2002 in English and held by 982 libraries worldwide