Seamus Heaney: Selected Poems 1966-1987

by Seamus Heaney

Hardcover

Published August 16, 1990

About the author

Works of Irish poet Seamus Justin Heaney reflect landscape, culture, and political crises of his homeland and include the collections Wintering Out (1972) and Field Work (1979) as well as a translation of Beowulf (1999). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995.

This writer and lecturer won this prize "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."

Heaney on Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Ruth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read cover to cover during a weird heatwave in Scotland. A very pleasant experience, but no major knockdown WOW moments.