BOOKS by Seamus Heaney

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1	Beowulf: A New Verse Translation more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Composed toward the end of the first millennium, "Beowulf" is the classic Northern epic of a hero's triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people. In his new translation--a national bestseller that is the winner of the Whitbread Award--Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is both true, line by line, ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.63! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Beowulf more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Winner of England's 1999 Whitbread prize, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon epic is meant to retrieve the poem from its schoolbook purgatory and establish it as a living, powerful poem for contemporary readers. More than the story of a hero's battle with a gruesome monster, BEOWULF is a story of loyalty, ... see all copies from £3.81! new only from £5.86! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Beowulf: A Verse Translation more books like this by Seamus Heaney (Translator), Daniel Donoghue (Editor) add to wishlist This text presents a faithful rendition of "Beowulf", a poem written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., which describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century. The translation is combined with detailed annotations, with no reading knowledge of Old English assumed. Heaney's introduction discusses ... see all copies from £7.07! new only from £10.38! \| first editions
4	The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry more books like this by Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney (Editor) add to wishlist Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes have brought together an inspired and diverse selection, ranging from undisputed masterpieces to rare discoveries, as well as drawing upon works in translation and traditional poems from oral cultures. In effect, this anthology has transformed the way we define and appreciate poetry, and it will continue to do so for ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £11.17! \| first editions
5	District and Circle: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Heaney's new collection of poetry maintains his trust in the implacableness of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals. see all copies from £1.95! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Nobel Prizewinner Heaney chooses the best among his poems over three decades, including several uncollected poems and his Nobel Address, "The Redress of Poetry." A New York Times Notable Book in 1999. see all copies from £6.69! new only from £6.76! \| first editions
7	North: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Contains the famous "bog poems," Heaney's meditations on the bodies of Vikings found preserved in the bogs of northern countries. see all copies from £6.19! new only from £7.58! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist In this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch. see all copies from £5.77! new only from £7.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Poems, 1965-1975 more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist This volume gathers nearly all of the poems from Heaney's first four collections: "Death of a Naturalist" (1966), "Door into the Dark" (1969), "Wintering Out" (1972), and "North" (1975). see all copies from £5.15! new only from £7.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Heaney modeled this dramatic work on Sophocles's PHILOCTETES, drawing a relationship between the plight of modern Ireland and the ancient tragedy about a hero whose wound can only be cured at Troy. see all copies from £4.87! new only from £4.87! \| first editions
11 view cover	Electric Light: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist In this 11th collection by the celebrated Irish poet, Heaney's lush, musical language and keen insight are once again brought to bear on the worlds around him, ranging from poems that evoke a rural childhood to work that elegizes the recent passing of fellow poets. Named a Notable Book by the New York Times in 2001. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.02! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Field work more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist This 1979 collection contains Heaney's celebrated "Glanmore Sonnets," poems about marriage and poetry. see all copies from £2.00! new only from £5.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Heaney's best prose of the last three decades is collected in this comprehensive volume of the Nobel Prize winner's work. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.82! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	The Spirit Level: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist This collection of poetry, combining the visionary with the actual, was inspired by the bubble in the spirit level and celebrates moments when the challenge of simply going on with life is transformed into a world of possibility. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Death of a Naturalist more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist This volume, Heaney's first, contains some of his most popular poems: "Digging", "Blackberry-Picking", "Churning Day", and the title poem. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Wintering Out more books like this by Heaney add to wishlist see all copies from £2.36! new only from £4.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Seeing Things: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Seamus Heaney was born on April 13, 1939, at Mossbawn, about thirty miles northwest of Belfast, in Northern Ireland. His first book, "Death of a Naturalist," was published in 1966. Heaney is the author of numerous collections of poetry, three volumes of criticism, and "The Cure at Troy, " a version of Sophacles' "Philoctetes." He is a foreign ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.10! \| first editions
18 view cover	Homage to Robert Frost more books like this by Joseph Brodsky, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Three Nobel Prize-winning poets explore the mythologies that surround the controversial and misunderstood life of Robert Frost. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £5.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Diary of One Who Vanished more books like this by Seamus Heaney, Leos Janacek add to wishlist Seamus Heaney translated this song cycle about a young Czeck boy and his beloved see all copies from £1.37! new only from £1.37! \| first editions
20 view cover	Sweeney astray more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist A translation and adaptation of Buile Suibhne, an Irish poem of the era 1200-1500, which relates the tale of Suibhne Geilt, an Irish royal of the Middle Ages. see all copies from £2.20! new only from £4.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Door Into the Dark: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Heaney has the gift of finding a new and consummate phrase to evoke physical qualities, and when these take on symbolic resonance the result is superb. see all copies from £6.38! new only from £42.60! \| first editions
22 view cover	Selected Poems, 1966-1987 more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist see all copies from £4.95! new only from £5.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
23	The Biggest Egg in the World more books like this by Marin Sorescu, Ted Hughes (Translator), Seamus Heaney (Translator) add to wishlist Hatched in Belfast by a clutch of poets, egged on by the Romanian poet, eight writers well up the poetry pecking order cooked up this book in tribute to the Romanian master chef. These are not hard-boiled translations but lightly scrambled versions, and if some seem flavored with Heaney, Hughes, or Constantine, that's quite in keeping with the ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.34!
24 view cover	The Redress of Poetry more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist This collection of 10 lectures examines the work of poets such as Christopher Marlowe, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Bishop, and Brian Merriman, in light of a common theme: that poetry can serve as a spiritual balance to the forces of hostility and oppression. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	New Selected Poems, 1966-1987 more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet. see all copies from £1.89! new only from £9.14! \| signed copies \| first editions

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