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Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013, author.

Opened ground : selected poems, 1966-1996 / Seamus Heaney.

First Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition, 1998.

New York, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

©1998

443 pages ; 24 cm

Selected poems by the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet are taken from Heaney's twelve previous collections and includes work published since 1987. This volume gathers the landmark poems from the poets twelve previous collections, & brings the reader up to date with the work published since 1987. Annotation. As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and Sweeney Astray, and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other--"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive" (Helen Vendler, The New Yorker)--and this is a one-volume testament to the musicality and precision of that voice. The book closes with Heaney's Nobel Lecture: "Crediting Poetry.

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 -- Literary collections.

Irish poetry -- Male authors -- 20th century.

English poetry -- Irish authors -- 20th century.

Poets, Irish -- 20th century -- Literary collections.

Ireland -- Poetry.

Northern Ireland -- Poetry.

Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- Poetry.

Poetry.

Krupat, Cynthia, designer.

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, publisher.

Title vignette; copyright, design, and edition statements from title verso.

Includes index.

Text in English.

Nobel Prize Winner in Literature.

From Death of a naturalist (1966) -- From Door into the dark (1969) -- From Wintering out (1972) -- From Stations (1975) -- From North (1975) -- From Field work (1979) -- From Sweeney astray (1983) -- From Station island (1984) -- From The haw lantern (1987) -- From The cure at Troy (1990) -- From Seeing things (1991) -- From The spirit level (1996) -- Creating poetry (1995).

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