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Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
Category: Classics
A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, "Beowulf" is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, late ...Show more
Beowulf : A Verse Translation by Seamus (EDT) Seamus (TRN); Heaney Daniel (EDT); Heaney Donoghue
Category: Fiction | Series: Norton Critical Editions
Beowulf - A Verse Translation - Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism by Seamus Heaney (Foreword by); Daniel Donoghue
Category: Classic | Series: Norton Critical Editions Ser.
"Accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right." --New York Times Book Review "Excellent ancillary materials in this critical edition make a potentially alienating text and culture accessible and engaging." ...Show more
Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition by Seamus Heaney
Category: Fiction
Composed at the end of the first millennium, "Beowulf" is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to its immense emotional credibility, Seamus Heaney gives the great epic convincing reality f ...Show more
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
Category: Poetry
For the fortieth anniversary of its publication, in May 2006, Faber are reissuing Seamus Heaney's classic first collection, Death of a Naturalist, which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award, the E.C. Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.'His wor ...Show more
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
Category: Poetry | Series: Landscapes
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.
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
Category: Poetry
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 twentieth-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand ...Show more
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
Category: Poetry
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 held in the hand a ...Show more
Electric Light by Seamus Heaney
Category: Poetry
Seamus Heaney's new collection 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. This is a book about origins (not least the origins o ...Show more
Field Work: Faber Modern Classics by Seamus Heaney
Category: Education | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney was 'the greatest poet of our age' (Guardian). From his remarkable debut in 1966, he pioneered the poetry of our times across five decades of cultural and political change, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Field Work, his fifth volume, from 1979, is a collection of po ...Show more