Description
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 Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin.
Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/01/1981
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.52w x 0.61d
ISBN13: 9780374516505
ISBN10: 0374516502
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Collections | Essays
About the Author
Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in Northern Ireland. His award-winning books of poetry include The Haw Lantern (FSG, 1987), Seeing Things (FSG, 1991), and The Spirit Level (FSG, 1996). A resident of Dublin, he has taught at Oxford and Harvard.
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