- Fiction, Poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
An irresistibly coherent book which celebrates the rising and the raising of the human spirit.' Michael Hofmann, The Times'If any poetry written today can have this 'redemptive effect' - as Heaney in his critical writing has begun to claim it can - then this is it.' Mick Imlah, Independent on Sunday
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Character-led, spare, earnest and grave.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Seamus Heaney
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 81
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Faber and Faber Ltd
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571250783
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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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