Synopses & Reviews
Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in
The New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven." Along with translations from the
Aeneid and the
Inferno, this book offers several poems about Heaney's late father.
Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His many books of poetry include Opened Ground, Electric Light, The Spirit Level, Seeing Things, Station Island, The Haw Lantern, and Field Work, as well as translations of Beowulf and Diary of One Who Vanished. A resident of Dublin, he has taught poetry at Oxford University and Harvard University. In 2004, Heaney was presented with the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement.
Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven." Along with translations from the Aeneid and the Inferno, this book offers several poems about Heaney's late father.
"Heaney's most plain-spoken and autobiographical book to date. Here is the transcendence of Seeing Things, the simple and miraculous escalation from a sixth sense to a seventh heaven, the lovely delusive optics of sawing and cycling and barred gates.Michael Hofmann, The London Review of Books
"[Reading Seeing Things] you feel what readers of say, Keats's odes or Milton's 1645 collection must have feltthe peculiar excitement of watching a new masterwork emerge and take its permanent place in our literature."John Carey, The Sunday Times (London)
Review
"Heaney's most plain-spoken and autobiographical book to date. Here is the transcendence of
Seeing Things, the simple and miraculous escalation from a sixth sense to a seventh heaven, the lovely delusive optics of sawing and cycling and barred gates. . . ."--Michael Hofmann
, The London Review of Books"[Reading Seeing Things] you feel what readers of say, Keats's odes or Milton's 1645 collection must have felt--the peculiar excitement of watching a new masterwork emerge and take its permanent place in our literature."--John Carey, The Sunday Times (London)
Review
"Heaney's most plain-spoken and autobiographical book to date. Here is the transcendence of
Seeing Things, the simple and miraculous escalation from a sixth sense to a seventh heaven, the lovely delusive optics of sawing and cycling and barred gates. . . ."--Michael Hofmann
, The London Review of Books"[Reading Seeing Things] you feel what readers of say, Keats's odes or Milton's 1645 collection must have felt--the peculiar excitement of watching a new masterwork emerge and take its permanent place in our literature."--John Carey, The Sunday Times (London)
Synopsis
Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in
The New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven." Along with translations from the
Aeneid and the
Inferno, this book offers several poems about Heaney's late father.
Synopsis
Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in
The New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven." Along with translations from the
Aeneid and the
Inferno, this book offers several poems about Heaney's late father.
About the Author
Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.