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1	Beowulf: A New Verse Translation more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 £5.96! new only from £8.64! \| first editions
2	Beowulf more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 for today's reader.In "Beowulf: An Illustrated ... see all copies from £2.41! new only from £6.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 £5.54! new only from £7.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 £5.72! new only from £10.96! \| first editions
5	District and Circle: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 £1.38! new only from £1.38! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	The Redress of Poetry more books like this by Seamus Heaney Professor Seamus Heaney delivered his inaugural lecture on 24th October, 1989. The poet whom Professor Heaney chose to celebrate in his inaugural lecture was George Herbert. He described him as not just the epitome of English poetic virtue but the embodiment of certain qualities of phlegm, tolerance and equanimity which are usually ascribed to the ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £11.06! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Selected Poems, 1966-1987 more books like this by Seamus Heaney see all copies from £5.54! new only from £11.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Death of a Naturalist more books like this by Seamus Heaney Poems deal with fathers, the past, mortality, nature, violence, school, rural life, love, fear, and childhood. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £8.44! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Beowulf: A Verse Translation more books like this by Seamus Heaney (Translator), Daniel Donoghue (Editor) 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 £5.92! new only from £9.70! \| first editions
10	Haw Lantern more books like this by Seamus Heaney This 1987 collection marked a new direction for Heaney, who moved away from his angry poems on political themes to more compassionate examinations of conscience and nationhood. see all copies from £2.04! new only from £14.52! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Station Island more books like this by Seamus Heaney The title poem of this collection, Seamus Heaney's first after "Field Work" (1979), is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. Heaney's pilgrim is on an inner journey and proceeds through a series of dream encounters which lead him back into the world that formed him, and then forward to face the ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £9.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry more books like this by Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney (Editor) "The Rattle Bag" is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary literature's leading poets.Moreover, ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £9.35! \| first editions
13 view cover	Poems, 1965-1975 more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 £5.12! new only from £10.34! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978 more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £10.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 £5.32! new only from £11.16! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Door Into the Dark: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney "Door into the Dark," Heaney's second collection of poems, first appeared in 1969. Already his widely celebrated gifts of precision, thoughtfulness, and musicality were everywhere apparent. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £12.69! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish more books like this by Seamus Heaney Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. Heaney's translation not only restores to us a work of historical and literary importance but offers the genius of one of ... see all copies from £8.31! new only from £9.11! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 £6.90! new only from £9.05! \| first editions
19 view cover	Homage to Robert Frost more books like this by Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott Three Nobel Prize-winning poets explore the mythologies that surround the controversial and misunderstood life of Robert Frost. see all copies from £6.72! new only from £9.80! \| first editions
20 view cover	Field Work: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney "Field Work," which first appeared in 1979, is a superb collection of lyrics and narrative poems from one of the literary masters of our time. As the critic Dennis Donoghue wrote in "The New York Times Book Review": "In 1938, not a moment too soon, W. B. Yeats admonished his colleagues: 'Irish poets, learn your trade.' Seamus Heaney, born the ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £7.27!
21	Selected poems, 1965-1975 more books like this by Seamus Heaney see all copies from £1.38! signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Electric Light: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 £5.54! new only from £5.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Opened ground : poems, 1966-1996 more books like this by Seamus Heaney An updated version of Seamus Heaney's "New Selected Poems 1966-1987", which has been expanded to include work from two subsequent collections, "Seeing Things" and the award-winning "The Spirit Level", as well as poems not previously published. see all copies from £8.18! new only from £14.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	The Spirit Level more books like this by Seamus Heaney A collection of poems from the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. The poems discover the possibility of a new beginning in many subjects and circumstances. Private memories, classical scenes and humble domestic objects are endowed with talismanic significance and friends and relatives are invoked for their promise and steadfastness. see all copies from £2.04! new only from £9.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Electric Light more books like this by Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney's new collection travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime. This is a book about origins (not least the origins of words) and oracles: the places where things ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £2.04! \| signed copies \| first editions

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