Heaney, Seamus 1939-2013

Finders keepers : selected prose, 1971-2001 by Seamus Heaney( Book )
25 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 1,341 libraries worldwide
From the Publisher: A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the "tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureate. 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 his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage, and the contemporary world?" Along with a selection from Heaney's three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, and The Redress of Poetry), the present volume includes a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in books, ranging from formal lectures to radio commentaries about the rural Ireland of his childhood to illuminating reviews of his contemporaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets-Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors, fellows, and successors-Finders Keepers becomes, as its title heralds, "an announcement of both excitement and possession."

Preoccupations : selected prose, 1968-1978 by Seamus Heaney( Book )
52 editions published between 1980 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,336 libraries worldwide
1. Blues of text, with author's autograph notes, dated 10/9/80. -2. Repros of text. - 3. Set of loose gatherings. - 4. Trial binding, with loose set of gatherings marked "Hand folded samples from Bloomsburg Craftsmen." The binding is marked "M.P. & Black B. G22, 10-13-80"--5. Bromides from Bloomsburg Craftsmen, Inc. - 6. Transmittal form from Haddon Craftsmen for four revised blues. - 7. Copy (xerox and typescript) for dustjacket and bibliography, with designer's notations. - 8. Repros and galley proofs for preliminary material, dustjacket, and bibliography. - 9. Trial dustjackets

North by Seamus Heaney( Book )
92 editions published between 1975 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 1,323 libraries worldwide

The burial at Thebes : a version of Sophocles' Antigone by Seamus Heaney( Book )
26 editions published between 2004 and 2011 in English and held by 1,214 libraries worldwide
Sophocles' play stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone learns that her brothers have killed each other, having been forced onto opposing sides. When Creon, king of Thebes, grants burial of one but not the "treacherous" other, Antigone defies his order, believing it her duty to bury all of her close kin. Enraged, Creon condemns her to death, and his soldiers wall her up in a tomb. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch

The haw lantern by Seamus Heaney( Book )
42 editions published between 1987 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,179 libraries worldwide
This collection of thirty-one poems is Seamus Heaney's first since Station Island. The Haw Lantern is a magnificent book that further extends the range of a poet who has always put his trust in the possibilities of the language

Death of a naturalist by Seamus Heaney( Book )
95 editions published between 1966 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,176 libraries worldwide
POETRY BY INDIVIDUAL POETS. Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. - from 'Digging'. With its lyrical and descriptive powers, Death of a Naturalist marked the auspicious debut of one of the century's finest poets

Sweeney astray : a version from the Irish by Seamus Heaney( Book )
17 editions published between 1983 and 2010 in English and Dutch and held by 1,158 libraries worldwide
Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Mad Sweeney undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira

Homage to Robert Frost by Joseph Brodsky( Book )
19 editions published between 1996 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,102 libraries worldwide
Three modern poets look at Frost's work and legacy

Door into the dark by Seamus Heaney( Book )
80 editions published between 1969 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,013 libraries worldwide
Door into the Dark, Heaney's second collection of poems, first appeared in 1969. Already his widely celebrated gifts of precision, thoughtfulness, and musicality were everywhere apparent. 1972

Crediting poetry : the Nobel lecture by Seamus Heaney( Book )
19 editions published between 1995 and 2014 in English and German and held by 151 libraries worldwide
Seamus Heaney's Nobel Lecture is a powerful defense of poetry as "the ship and the anchor" of our spirit within an ocean of violent, divisive politics and "world-sorrow." Beginning with the "creaturely existence" of his childhood in a thatched farmstead in rural County Derr, Heaney traces his path in "the wideness of language." It is a way forged by listening: to the "burbles and squeaks" of BBC and Radio Eireann from a wireless speaker, to the triple-rhyme in a line of Yeats', but also to the sound of gunfire in Ulster and the keening desolation of all the "wounded spots on the face of the earth." Out of all these sounds Heaney discovers the necessity of poetic order--"an order where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew."It is poetry's ability to convey the forces of the marvelous and the murderous together, Heaney writes, that gives it "at once a buoyancy and a holding," and persuades us of its "truth to life." Heaney's lecture not only finds a way of crediting poetry "without anxiety or apology," but it persuades us, eloquently and gracefully, of the "rightness" and "thereness" of our veritable human being