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100 Poems by Seamus Heaney
$27.47 NZD
$28.00 (1% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Selected poems from a Nobel laureateIn 100 Poems, readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, and will discover new favorites, from The Cure at Troy to Death of a Naturalist. It is a singular and welcoming anthology, reaching far and wide, for now and for years to come. Seamus Heaney ha ...Show more
100 Poems: Seamus Heaney by Seamus HEANEY
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Category: No Category | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, and no other edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first to ...Show more
Aeneid: Book VI by Seamus Heaney
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Category: Poetry
In a momentous publication, Seamus Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid, Virgil's epic poem composed sometime between 29 and 19 BC, follows the hero, Aeneas, on his descent into the underworld. In Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, Heaney acknowledged the impo ...Show more
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
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Category: Poetry
A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, "Beowulf" is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, late ...Show more
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
$36.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
"Beowulf", composed between the seventh and tenth centuries, is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid battle ...Show more
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
$32.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by line, to the original poem.
Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition by Seamus Heaney
$52.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Composed at the end of the first millennium, "Beowulf" is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to its immense emotional credibility, Seamus Heaney gives the great epic convincing reality f ...Show more
Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
$33.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
For the fortieth anniversary of its publication, in May 2006, Faber are reissuing Seamus Heaney's classic first collection, Death of a Naturalist, which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award, the E.C. Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.'His wor ...Show more
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
$39.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
"Again the growl Of shutting doors, the jolt and one-off treble Of iron on iron, then a long centrifugal Haulage of speed through every dragging socket." Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditio ...Show more
Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001 by Seamus Heaney
$26.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
A selection of the best of three decades of writing about poetry, a celebration of the "tenacious curiosity" (Los Angeles Times) of the Nobel laureate Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How sh ...Show more
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches ...Show more