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Door into the Dark

By Seamus Heaney

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9780571089987 | Faber & Faber, June 1, 1972, cover price $10.95 | also contains No Nonsense Phonics Pack a of 6

9780571101269 | Faber & Faber, June 1, 1972, cover price $13.95

Field Work

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Seamus Heaney

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9780374516208 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1981, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: 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.

Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978

By Seamus Heaney

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9780374516505 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1981, cover price $19.00

Poems: 1965-1975

By Seamus Heaney

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9780374516529 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1981, cover price $16.00

Sweeney Astray

A modern version of the medieval Irish work, 'Buile Suibne,' features the colorful hero Mad Sweeney, who undertakes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and transformed into a bird at the Battle of Moira

By Seamus Heaney

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9780374272227 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1984, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913.

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9780374518943 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1985, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A modern version of the medieval Irish work, 'Buile Suibne,' features the colorful hero Mad Sweeney, who undertakes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and transformed into a bird at the Battle of Moira

Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish

By Seamus Heaney

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9780374272210 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1984, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A modern version of the medieval Irish work, 'Buile Suibne,' features the colorful hero Mad Sweeney, who undertakes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and transformed into a bird at the Battle of Moira

Ploughshares Spring 1984

By Seamus Heaney (editor)

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9780933277755 | Ploughshares Books, May 1, 1984, cover price $9.95

Station Island

Poems deal with a pilgrim's spiritual journey, the story of an ancient Irish king, and children, nature, change, travel, mortality, and religion

By Seamus Heaney

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9780374269784 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 1985, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Poems deal with a pilgrim's spiritual journey, the story of an ancient Irish king, and children, nature, change, travel, mortality, and religion

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9780374519353 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1986, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Poems deal with a pilgrim's spiritual journey, the story of an ancient Irish king, and children, nature, change, travel, mortality, and religion

Rattle Bag

Gathers a wide selection of poems by American and British authors, including Frost, Ginsberg, Graves, Eliot, Hardy, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Wordsworth, and Auden

By Seamus Heaney

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9780571119769 | Faber & Faber, February 1, 1985, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world.

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9780613638661 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $36.15 | About this edition: A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world.

Ireland's Living Voices: Short Fiction from Ireland's Best Contemporary Writers

By Seamus Heaney (editor)

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9780517557945 | Crown Pub, March 1, 1985, cover price $7.95

Death of a Naturalist

Poems deal with fathers, the past, mortality, nature, violence, school, rural life, love, fear, and childhood (view table of contents)

By Seamus Heaney

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9780571090242 | Reissue edition (Faber & Faber, August 1, 1985), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with fathers, the past, mortality, nature, violence, school, rural life, love, fear, and childhood

North

Brief poems consider sunlight, myths, death, the past, ancient rituals, courtship, dreams, and justice

By Seamus Heaney

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9780571108138 | Reprint edition (Faber & Faber, January 1, 1985), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Brief poems consider sunlight, myths, death, the past, ancient rituals, courtship, dreams, and justice

The Haw Lantern

Poems exploring the theme of loss, meditations on the conscience of the writer, and exercises in an allegorical vein are featured in this collection of thirty-one poems (view table of contents)

By Seamus Heaney

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9780374168377 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1987, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Poems exploring the theme of loss, meditations on the conscience of the writer, and exercises in an allegorical vein are featured in this collection of thirty-one poems

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9780374521097 | Noonday Pr, February 1, 1989, cover price $9.00 | About this edition: Poems exploring the theme of loss, meditations on the conscience of the writer, and exercises in an allegorical vein are featured in this collection of thirty-one poems

9780571147816 | Gardners Books, June 22, 1987, cover price $11.30 | About this edition: Poems exploring the theme of loss are joined by meditations on the conscience of the writer and exercises in an allegorical vein which will both surprise and delight the many admirers of his previous work.

The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987

Product Description: In this volume of critical essays, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness, and we are reminded, above all, of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself...read more

By Seamus Heaney

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9780374165789, titled "Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: One of Ireland's greatest contemporary poets examines the place of poetry and the poet in a world of suffering and injustice, weighing the poet's gift of words against the responsibilities to work in other--civic and humane--realms to effect change

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9780374522209 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1990, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: In this volume of critical essays, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets.

Lenten Parish Programme: Renewal of Personal and Community Life Through Prayer and Scripture

By Seamus Heaney

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Hardcover:

9781853900754 | State Mutual Book &Periodical, June 1, 1989, cover price $25.00

Advent Parish Programme

By Seamus Heaney

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Hardcover:

9780862172749 | State Mutual Book &Periodical, June 1, 1989, cover price $25.00

The Place of Writing

By Seamus Heaney

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Hardcover:

9781555403157 | Scholars Pr, July 1, 1989, cover price $20.95

Redress of Poetry: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford Oct 24 1989

Product Description: 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 English themselves...read more

By Seamus Heaney

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9780199513321 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Professor Seamus Heaney delivered his inaugural lecture on 24th October, 1989.

Hands Behind My Back: Selected Poems

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By Seamus Heaney (introduced by) and Marin Sorescu

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9780932440587 | Field Translations Series, July 1, 1991, cover price $22.95

Seeing Things: Poems

Interrelated, twelve-line poems called Squarings are among the works that recreate memories and move on to hallucinatory images

By Seamus Heaney

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9780374257767 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1991, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Interrelated, twelve-line poems called Squarings are among the works that recreate memories and move on to hallucinatory images

The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes

The Irish poet offers his adaptation of Sophocles' tale of Philoctetes who is marooned by the Greeks on their way to Troy

By Seamus Heaney

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9780374133559 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1991, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The Cure at Troy is Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes.

Paperback:

9780374522896 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 4, 1991, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The Irish poet offers his adaptation of Sophocles' tale of Philoctetes who is marooned by the Greeks on their way to Troy

Sweeney's Flight

In an imaginative collaboration between poet and photographer, thirty-four photographs depict the likely landscape of Mad Sweeney's wanderings through the kingdom of Dal-Arie in the poem Sweeney Astray.

By Rachel Giese (photographer) and Seamus Heaney

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Hardcover:

9780374272197, titled "Sweeney's Flight" | Subsequent edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1992), cover price $35.00 | also contains Contemporary Advances in Sport Psychology: A Review | About this edition: Photos set the stage for a new version of the tale of Sweeney, who is turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira

Dylan the Durable?: On Dylan Thomas

By Seamus Heaney

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9781878603043 | Bennington College Bookstore, November 1, 1992, cover price $10.00

Seeing Things

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By Seamus Heaney

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9780374523893 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1993), cover price $14.00

Essential Wordsworth

Offers a brief description of the themes of Wordsworth's poetry and gathers a selection of his work

By Seamus Heaney (editor)

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9780883658352, titled "The Essential Wordsworth" | Galahad Books, September 1, 1993, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Offers a brief description of the themes of Wordsworth's poetry and gathers a selection of his work

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9780880011709 | Reprint edition (Ecco Pr, September 1, 1995), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Offers a brief description of the themes of Wordsworth's poetry and gathers a selection of his work

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