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Stepping Stones : Interviews with Seamus Heaney by Dennis O'Driscoll & Seamus Heaney
Category: Biography Memoir
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 ...Show more
The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney
Category: Poetry
Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, "The Burial at Thebes" is Seamus Heaney's verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, "Antigone" - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in western drama.
The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone by Seamus Heaney
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
In this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch.Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., s ...Show more
The Cure at Troy by Heaney, Seamus
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Drama Ser.
Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles's Philoctetes tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to realise they cannot win the Trojan war without Philoctetes's invincible bow, and turn back to seek his help. ...Show more
The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Widely praised on its first publication in 1987, The Haw Lantern ventured into new imaginative territory with poems exploring the theme of loss - including a celebrated sonnet sequence concerning the death of the poet's mother - joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an a ...Show more
The Letters of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney; Christopher Reid
Category: Biography
The letters provide us with an intimate, multi-layered understanding of this extraordinarypoet's life and mind.
The Rattle Bag by Ted Hughes; Seamus Heaney (Editor)
Category: Poetry
The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary ...Show more
The Redress of Poetry by Seamus Heaney
Category: Poetry
Seamus Heaney defines the title of this work of criticism as follows: "To redress poetry is to know and celebrate it for its forcibleness as itself . . . not only as a matter of profferd argument and edifying content but as a matter of angelic potential, a motion of the soul." Throughout this collection ...Show more
The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables by Seamus Heaney
Category: Poetry
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 t ...Show more
The Translations of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney
Category: Poetry
'A huge book, an immense book. Such adventure and variety, such industry, such subjugation of self.' Michael Hofmann, TLS Heaney not only translated classic works of Latin and Old English but also poems from a great number of ancient and modern European languages, not least translations from the Old, M ...Show more
The Translations of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney; Jonathan Galassi (Editor)
Category: Poetry
This is the first ever collected volume of Seamus Heaney's translations from languages including Old and Middle Irish and English, Medieval Italian, Classical Greek and Latin and Modern Italian, Spanish, French, Romanian, German and Greek.
W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats; Seamus Heaney (selection by)
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us to be more resolutely and abundantly alive, whatever the conditions. ...Show more