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Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
by Seamus Heaney
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ISBN13: 9780374526788 
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
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."
Synopsis:
The definitive choice of the Nobel laureate's best poems, bringing the reader up to date with the work Heaney has published since 1987.
About the Author
Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in Northern Ireland. His award-winning books of poetry include The Haw Lantern (FSG, 1987), Seeing Things (FSG, 1991), and The Spirit Level (FSG, 1996). A resident of Dublin, he has taught at Oxford and Harvard.
Table of Contents
Author's Notefrom Death of a Naturalist (1966)DiggingDeath of a NaturalistThe BarnBlackberry-PickingChurning DayFollowerMid-Term BreakThe DivinerPoemPersonal HeliconAntaeus (1966)from Door into the Dark (1969)The OutlawThe ForgeThatcherThe PeninsulaRequiem for the CroppiesUndineThe Wife's TaleNight DriveRelic of MemoryA Lough Neagh SequenceThe Given NoteWhinlandsThe PlantationBann ClayBoglandfrom Wintering Out (1972)FodderBog OakAnahorishServant BoyLandGifts of RainToomeBroaghOracleThe Backward LookA New SongThe Other SideTinder (from A Northern Hoard)The Tollund Manfs26NerthusWedding DayMother of the GroomSummer HomeSerenadesShore WomanLimboBye-ChildGood-nightFiresideWesteringfrom Stations (1975)Nesting-GoundJulyEngland's DifficultyVisitantTrial RunsThe WandererCloisteredThe Stations of the WestIncertusfrom North (1975)Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication 1. Sunlight 2. The Seed CuttersFuneral RitesNorthViking Dublin: Trial PiecesBone DreamsBog QueenThe Grauballe ManPunishmentStrange FruitKinshipAct of UnionHercules and Antaeusfrom Whatever You Say Say NothingSinging School 1. The Ministry of Fear 2. A Constable Calls 3. Orange Drums, Tyrone, 1966 4. Summer 1969 5. Fosterage 6. Exposurefrom Field Work (1979)OystersTriptych After a Killing Sibyl At the Water's Edge0The Toome RoadA Drink of WaterThe Strand at Lough BegCasualtyBadgersThe Singer's HouseThe Guttural MuseGlanmore SonnetsAn AfterwardsThe OtterThe SkunkA Dream of JealousyField WorkSongLeavingsThe Harvest BowIn Memoriam Francis LedwidgeUgolinofrom Sweeney Astray (1983)Sweeney in FlightThe Names of the Hare (1981)from Station Island (1984)The UndergroundSloe GinChekhov on SakhalinSandstone Keepsakefrom Shelf Life Granite Chip Old Smoothing Iron Stone from DelphiMaking StrangeThe BirthplaceChangesA Bat on the RoadA Hazel Stick for Catherine AnnA Kite for Michael and ChristopherThe Railway ChildrenWidgeonSheelagh na Gig'Aye' (from The Loaning)The King of the DitchbacksStation Islandfrom Sweeney Redivivus The First Gloss Sweeney Redivivus In the Beech The First Kingdom The First Flight Drifting Off The Cleric The Hermit The Master The Scribes Holly An Artist The Old Icons In Illo Tempore On the RoadVillanelle for an Anniversary (1986)from The Haw Lantern (1987)AlphabetsTerminusFrom the Frontier of WritingThe Haw LanternFrom the Republic of ConscienceHailstonesThe Stone VerdictThe SpoonbaitClearancesThe Milk FactoryThe Wishing TreeGrotus and ConventinaWolfe ToneFrom the Canton of ExpectationThe Mud VisionThe Disappearing IslandThe Riddlefrom The Cure at Troy (1990)Voices from Lemnosfrom Seeing Things (1991)The Golden BoughMarkingsMan and BoySeeing ThingsAn August NightField of VisionThe PitchforkThe Settle Bedfrom Glanmore RevisitedA Pillowed HeadA Royal ProspectWheels within WheelsFosterlingfrom Squarings Lightenings Settings 0Crossings SquaringsA Transgression (1994)from The Spirit Level (1996)The Rain StickMintA Sofa in the FortiesKeeping GoingTwo LorriesDamsonWeighing InSt. Kevin and the Blackbirdfrom The Flight PathMycenae LookoutThe Gravel WalksWhitby-sur-Moyola'Poet's Chair'The SwingTwo Stick DrawingsA CallThe ErrandA Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow AlsoThe StrandThe WalkAt the WellheadAt BanagherTollundPostscriptCrediting Poetry (1995)Crediting PoetryIndex of TitlesIndex of First Lines
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780374526788
- Subtitle:
- Selected Poems, 1966-1996
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- Poetry (poetic works by one author)
- Subject:
- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Subject:
- Ireland
- Subject:
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by
- Subject:
- Heaney, seamus, 1939-
- Subject:
- Single Author - British & Irish
- Edition Description:
- 1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux paperback ed.
- Series Volume:
- 98-7
- Publication Date:
- October 1999
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 464
- Dimensions:
- 8.30x5.54x1.32 in. 1.26 lbs.
