Seamus Heaney: Selected Poems, 1966-1987

by Seamus Heaney

Book Overview

"Between my fingers and my thumbThe squat pen rests.I'll dig with it." Selected Poems 1966-1987 assembles the groundbreaking work of the first half of Seamus Heaney's extraordinary career. This... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374522804
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Noonday Pr
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 1.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent

Seamus Heaney is an Irish treasure in literature. His works display the "concrete reality" that he aimed for in his poetry. My favorite poem is "Digging". He is talented in fusing agric./pol./soc./religion themes together in one poem.

good portrait of Heaney's development

Heaney's "Selected Poems" shows a good picture of the poet's development up to "Station Island" and the sonnets of Glanmore and Clearances. Like Yeats, Heaney had to go through a few volumes before he "became good": except for "The Tolland Man," the poems selected from his first four collections are flat, even the much-anthologized "Digging," which perseveres in anthologies only because it illustrates Heaney's overall philosophy. With the bog poems from "North," Heaney comes into his own, and he has managed to remain at this consistent level of excellence since then.