- English poetry, Irish authors, Fiction, Poetry
Seamus Heaneys new collection starts in an age of bare hands and cast iron and ends as the automatic lock / clunks shut in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twentieth-first century.
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Character-led, contemplative, grave and prestige.
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Seamus Heaney
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 78
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, FABER AND FABER, Faber and Faber Ltd
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English, und
- ISBN
- 9780374530815
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Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his
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