Preoccupations : selected prose, 1968-1978 / Seamus Heaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prose poems.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

224 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Noonday Press, [1980]

Summary:

Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, "Preoccupations," begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin.

Contents:

Mossbawn

Belfast

Feeling into words

Makings of a music : reflections on Wordsworth and Yeats

Fire i' the flint : reflections on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Yeats as an example?

From Monaghan to the Grand Canal : the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh

Sense of place

Englands of the mind

In the country of convention : English pastoral verse

God in the tree : early Irish nature poetry

Canticles to the Earth : Theodore Roethke

Tradition and an individual talent : Hugh MacDiarmid

Memorable voice : Stevie Smith

Labourer and the lord : Francis Ledwidge and Lord Dunsany

Poetry of John Hewitt

Mixed marriage : Paul Muldoon

Digging deeper : Brian Friel's Volunteers

Faith, hope and poetry : Osip Mandelstam

Full face : Robert Lowell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page [225-226]).

ISBN:

0374516502

9780374516505

OCLC:

28959706