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1	Beowulf: A New Verse Translation more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Composed toward the end of the first millennium, "Beowulf" is the classic Northern epic of a hero's triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people. In his new translation--a national bestseller that is the winner of the Whitbread Award--Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is both true, line by line, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Beowulf more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Winner of England's 1999 Whitbread prize, Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon epic is meant to retrieve the poem from its schoolbook purgatory and establish it as a living, powerful poem for contemporary readers. More than the story of a hero's battle with a gruesome monster, BEOWULF is a story of loyalty, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Beowulf: A Verse Translation more books like this by Seamus Heaney (Translator), Daniel Donoghue (Editor) add to wishlist This text presents a faithful rendition of "Beowulf", a poem written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., which describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century. The translation is combined with detailed annotations, with no reading knowledge of Old English assumed. Heaney's introduction discusses ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.05! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry more books like this by Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney (Editor) add to wishlist Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes have brought together an inspired and diverse selection, ranging from undisputed masterpieces to rare discoveries, as well as drawing upon works in translation and traditional poems from oral cultures. In effect, this anthology has transformed the way we define and appreciate poetry, and it will continue to do so for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.97!
5	Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Nobel Prizewinner Heaney chooses the best among his poems over three decades, including several uncollected poems and his Nobel Address, "The Redress of Poetry." A New York Times Notable Book in 1999. see all copies from $2.49! new only from $4.32! \| first editions \| SVS
6	100 Questions & Answers about Prostate Cancer more books like this by Pamela Ellsworth, M.D. add to wishlist EMPOWER YOURSELF! Whether you're a newly diagnosed prostate cancer patient, a survivor, or a friend or relative of either, this book offers help. The only text to provide both the doctor's and patient's point of view, 100 Questions and Answers About Prostate Cancer gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| SVS
7	District and Circle: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Heaney's new collection of poetry maintains his trust in the implacableness of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	North: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Contains the famous "bog poems," Heaney's meditations on the bodies of Vikings found preserved in the bogs of northern countries. see all copies from $2.99! new only from $7.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	And the Word Came with Power: How God Met and Changed a People Forever more books like this by Joanne Shetler, Patricia Purvis, Liz Heaney (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.90! \| signed copies
10	Poems, 1965-1975 more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist This volume gathers nearly all of the poems from Heaney's first four collections: "Death of a Naturalist" (1966), "Door into the Dark" (1969), "Wintering Out" (1972), and "North" (1975). see all copies from $4.50! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist In this outstanding new translation, commissioned by Ireland's renowned Abbey Theatre to commemorate its centenary, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch. see all copies from $4.52! new only from $5.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Field work more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist This 1979 collection contains Heaney's celebrated "Glanmore Sonnets," poems about marriage and poetry. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Heaney modeled this dramatic work on Sophocles's PHILOCTETES, drawing a relationship between the plight of modern Ireland and the ancient tragedy about a hero whose wound can only be cured at Troy. see all copies from $3.31! new only from $4.97! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Over Nine Waves: A Book of Irish Legends more books like this by Marie Heaney (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of Irish legends includes the three major pre-Christian sequences - the Mythological Cycle, the Ulster Cycle and the Finn Cycle - as well as more recent tales of the saints Patrick, Brigid and Colmcille. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.26! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Electric Light: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist In this 11th collection by the celebrated Irish poet, Heaney's lush, musical language and keen insight are once again brought to bear on the worlds around him, ranging from poems that evoke a rural childhood to work that elegizes the recent passing of fellow poets. Named a Notable Book by the New York Times in 2001. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Homage to Robert Frost more books like this by Joseph Brodsky, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Three Nobel Prize-winning poets explore the mythologies that surround the controversial and misunderstood life of Robert Frost. see all copies from $2.14! new only from $2.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Seeing Things: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Seamus Heaney was born on April 13, 1939, at Mossbawn, about thirty miles northwest of Belfast, in Northern Ireland. His first book, "Death of a Naturalist," was published in 1966. Heaney is the author of numerous collections of poetry, three volumes of criticism, and "The Cure at Troy, " a version of Sophacles' "Philoctetes." He is a foreign ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.98! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Death of a Naturalist more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist This volume, Heaney's first, contains some of his most popular poems: "Digging", "Blackberry-Picking", "Churning Day", and the title poem. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Serbian-English/English-Serbian Dictionary & Phrasebook more books like this by Duska Radosavljevic Heaney, Nicholas Awde add to wishlist Serbian is the language spoken in Serbia and by the Serbs who live in other parts of the former Yugoslavia. Due to its similarities to Croatian, the two languages used to be fused into Serbo-Croat, which was the official language of Yugoslavia until the break-up in the early 1990s. The user of this dictionary and phrasebook, however, will be ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $6.96!
20 view cover	Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Heaney's best prose of the last three decades is collected in this comprehensive volume of the Nobel Prize winner's work. see all copies from $3.65! new only from $6.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Spirit Level: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist This collection of poetry, combining the visionary with the actual, was inspired by the bubble in the spirit level and celebrates moments when the challenge of simply going on with life is transformed into a world of possibility. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22	Inside the Walls of Alcatraz more books like this by Frank Heaney, Gay Machado add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $42.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Redress of Poetry more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist This collection of 10 lectures examines the work of poets such as Christopher Marlowe, Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Bishop, and Brian Merriman, in light of a common theme: that poetry can serve as a spiritual balance to the forces of hostility and oppression. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978 more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, "Preoccupations," begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Memoirs of a Master Forger more books like this by William Heaney add to wishlist William is a dissolute book-forger. A talented writer in his own right he would rather scribble poems anonymously for an asian friend (who is becoming increasingly successful as a result), and create forgeries of Jane Austen first editions to sell to gullible collectors. He's not all bad. The money from the forgeries goes straight to homeless ... see all copies from $10.09! new only from $10.09! \| first editions

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