Heaney
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Beowulf: a new translation (SIGNED)
- £650.00
- Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, is the elegiac 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. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle…
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Crediting Poetry (Nobel Lecture)
- £40.00
- Samus Heaney's lecture, delivered before the Swedish Academy on 7 December 1995, upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Diary of One Who Vanished
- £50.00
- Introduction by Seamus Heany. Leos Janacek discovered the poems he was to set in his song cycle 'Diary of one who vanished' (1917) in his local paper. They tell the story of a man who abandons his home because of his sexual infatuation with a gypsy. These new English versions…
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District and Circle
- £15.00
- Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been…
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Finders Keepers – Selected Prose 1971-2001
- £25.00
- Delving into his literary heritage and his own voice in the modern world, this current collection contains the Nobel Prize winner's greatest lectures, short newspaper articles, radio commentaries, and other richly textured pieces.
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From the Republic of Conscience
- £35.00
- From the Republic of Conscience... was written in response to an invitation from Amnesty International and produced by Peter Fallon for Amnesty International Ireland.
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New Selected Poems 1966-1987
- £14.00
- 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. Few writers at work today, in verse…
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New Selected Poems 1988-2013
- £18.00
- New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career. Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher…
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Opened Ground: Poems, 1966-96
- £18.00
- This volume was 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. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to…
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Selected Poems 1965-1975 (Heaney)
- £7.00
- This selection, from the first six of the poet's collections published from 1966 through to 1975 is fully representative ,of Heaney's terse, succinct reflective verse ,including a longer sequenced poem of fishing exampled in 'a Lough Neagh Sequence'.
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Selected Poems 1966-1987 (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- 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. Few writers at work today, in verse…
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Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
- £50.00
- Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995…
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The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables
- £60.00
- The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of the literature of these islands,…
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Beowulf: a new translation (SIGNED)
- £650.00
- Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, is the elegiac 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. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle…
- Add to basket
-
Crediting Poetry (Nobel Lecture)
- £40.00
- Samus Heaney's lecture, delivered before the Swedish Academy on 7 December 1995, upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Add to basket
-
Diary of One Who Vanished
- £50.00
- Introduction by Seamus Heany. Leos Janacek discovered the poems he was to set in his song cycle 'Diary of one who vanished' (1917) in his local paper. They tell the story of a man who abandons his home because of his sexual infatuation with a gypsy. These new English versions…
- Add to basket
-
District and Circle
- £15.00
- Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twenty-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been…
- Add to basket
-
Finders Keepers – Selected Prose 1971-2001
- £25.00
- Delving into his literary heritage and his own voice in the modern world, this current collection contains the Nobel Prize winner's greatest lectures, short newspaper articles, radio commentaries, and other richly textured pieces.
- Add to basket
-
From the Republic of Conscience
- £35.00
- From the Republic of Conscience... was written in response to an invitation from Amnesty International and produced by Peter Fallon for Amnesty International Ireland.
- Add to basket
-
New Selected Poems 1966-1987
- £14.00
- 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. Few writers at work today, in verse…
- Add to basket
-
New Selected Poems 1988-2013
- £18.00
- New Selected Poems 1988-2013 provides an unrivalled account of a period of work that was crowned by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Together with its earlier, sibling volume, it completes the arc of a remarkable career. Shortly before his death in 2013, Seamus Heaney discussed with his publisher…
- Add to basket
-
Opened Ground: Poems, 1966-96
- £18.00
- This volume was 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. Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 comes as close to being a 'Collected Poems' as its author cares to…
- Add to basket
-
Selected Poems 1965-1975 (Heaney)
- £7.00
- This selection, from the first six of the poet's collections published from 1966 through to 1975 is fully representative ,of Heaney's terse, succinct reflective verse ,including a longer sequenced poem of fishing exampled in 'a Lough Neagh Sequence'.
- Add to basket
-
Selected Poems 1966-1987 (SIGNED)
- £120.00
- 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. Few writers at work today, in verse…
- Add to basket
-
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
- £50.00
- Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995…
- Add to basket
-
The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables
- £60.00
- The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of the literature of these islands,…
- Add to basket