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1	Beowulf: A New Verse Translation more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 $5.00! new only from $7.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Beowulf more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 $2.37! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 $4.50! new only from $9.38! \| first editions \| SVS
4	District and Circle: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 $3.65! new only from $6.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Beowulf: A Verse Translation more books like this by Seamus Heaney (Translator), Daniel Donoghue (Editor) see all copies from $6.00! new only from $9.97! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Station Island more books like this by Seamus Heaney The title poem of this collection, Seamus Heaney's first after "Field Work" (1979), is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. Heaney's pilgrim is on an inner journey and proceeds through a series of dream encounters which lead him back into the world that formed him, and then forward to face the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Redress of Poetry more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 $2.74! new only from $5.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Death of a Naturalist more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 $10.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 $2.95! new only from $10.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978 more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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
12 view cover	Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry more books like this by Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney (Editor) A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.84! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish more books like this by Seamus Heaney Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. Heaney's translation not only restores to us a work of historical and literary importance but offers the genius of one of ... see all copies from $3.33! new only from $7.61! \| first editions
14 view cover	Selected Poems, 1966-1987 more books like this by Seamus Heaney see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.45! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Haw Lantern more books like this by Seamus Heaney This 1987 collection marked a new direction for Heaney, who moved away from his angry poems on political themes to more compassionate examinations of conscience and nationhood. see all copies from $3.45! new only from $12.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Electric Light: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Spirit Level: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 $3.22! new only from $9.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Poems, 1965-1975 more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 $1.99! new only from $9.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	North: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 $2.00! new only from $7.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Field Work: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.49! \| first editions
22 view cover	Homage to Robert Frost more books like this by Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott Three Nobel Prize-winning poets explore the mythologies that surround the controversial and misunderstood life of Robert Frost. see all copies from $3.22! new only from $11.00! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Field work more books like this by Seamus Heaney This 1979 collection contains Heaney's celebrated "Glanmore Sonnets," poems about marriage and poetry. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
24	Sweeney astray more books like this by Seamus Heaney A translation and adaptation of Buile Suibhne, an Irish poem of the era 1200-1500, which relates the tale of Suibhne Geilt, an Irish royal of the Middle Ages. see all copies from $6.48! new only from $16.47! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	The Spirit Level more books like this by Seamus Heaney 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 $4.74! new only from $22.70! \| signed copies \| first editions

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