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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 $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	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 $3.99! new only from $9.64! \| 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 $5.21! new only from $9.51! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Beowulf more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Composed at the end of the first millennium, "Beowulf" is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to its immense emotional credibility, Seamus Heaney gives the great epic convincing reality for today's reader.In "Beowulf: An Illustrated ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.92! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone more books like this by Seamus Heaney (Translator) 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 $3.04! new only from $7.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Field work more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist "Field Work" is the record of four years during which Seamus Heaney left the violence of Belfast to settle in a country cottage with his family in Glanmore, County Wicklow. Heeding "an early warning system to get back inside my own head," Heaney wrote poems with a new strength and maturity, moving from the political concerns of his landmark volume ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Death of a Naturalist more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Poems deal with fathers, the past, mortality, nature, violence, school, rural life, love, fear, and childhood. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	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 $4.90! new only from $10.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry more books like this by Ted Hughes (Editor), Seamus Heaney (Photographer) 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 $13.26! \| first editions \| SVS
10	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 $7.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Redress of Poetry more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.72! new only from $10.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	North: Poems more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist Brief poems consider sunlight, myths, death, the past, ancient rituals, courtship, dreams, and justice. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| SVS
13 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 $2.49! new only from $7.97! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Spirit Level more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist A collection of poems from the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. The poems discover the possibility of a new beginning in many subjects and circumstances. Private memories, classical scenes and humble domestic objects are endowed with talismanic significance and friends and relatives are invoked for their promise and steadfastness. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 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 $4.87! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Haw Lantern more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist 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 $3.00! new only from $30.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Station Island more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist 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 $2.06! new only from $8.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	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 $1.99! new only from $8.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Crediting poetry more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist This volume presents the text of Heaney's 1995 Nobel Prize lecture, in which he considers the relevance of poetry in everyday life. see all copies from $5.95! new only from $20.84! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 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 $7.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 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 $2.92! new only from $9.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Wintering Out more books like this by Heaney add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! new only from $7.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 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 $7.50! \| first editions
24 view cover	The Government of the Tongue more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.94! \| signed copies \| SVS
25 view cover	Selected Poems, 1966-1987 more books like this by Seamus Heaney add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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