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Opened Ground

Selected Poems, 1966-1996

By Seamus Heaney

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| Paperback | 9780374526788

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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 voiceContinue

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."

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  • The man with Ireland stuck to his spade

    Opened Ground: Poems 1966-96 Seamus Heaney Faber £20 (hbk), £12.99 (pbk), pp352 The Poetry Of Seamus Heaney Neil Corcoran Faber £9.99, pp272 One winter's evening in the Ulster of 1976 some workmen were lined up beside their van by masked gunmen, who ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sun, 26 Sep 2010

  • Hand and Foot

    When Seamus Heaney left Belfast in 1972, to work as a freelance writer in the relative safety of the Republic, Northern Ireland was a war zone. Internment and Bloody Sunday had recruited so many to the Provisional IRA that Civil Rights marches had gi ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 464 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0374526788
  • ISBN-13: 9780374526788
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Pub date: Oct 25, 1999
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
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