Opened ground : selected poems, 1966-1996 / Seamus Heaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--Poetry.

Ireland.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

444 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.

Summary:

Selected poems by the Nobel Prizewinning Irish poet are taken from Heaney's twelve previous collections and includes work published since 1987. This volume gathers the landmark poems from the poets twelve previous collections, & brings the reader up to date with the work published since 1987. Annotation. As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and Sweeney Astray, and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other--"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive" (Helen Vendler, The New Yorker)--and this is a one-volume testament to the musicality and precision of that voice. The book closes with Heaney's Nobel Lecture: "Crediting Poetry."

Contents:

From Death of a naturalist (1966)

From Door into the dark (1969)

From Wintering out (1972)

From Stations (1975)

From North (1975)

From Field work (1979)

From Sweeney astray (1983)

From Station island (1984)

From The haw lantern (1987)

From The cure at Troy (1990)

From Seeing things (1991)

From The spirit level (1996)

Crediting poetry (1995).

Notes:

Originally published in 1998 by Faber and Faber Limited, as Poems: 1966-1996.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy fourth printing, 2000.

ISBN:

0374526788

9780374526788

OCLC:

42891876