{"product_id":"selected-poems-1966-1987-9780374535605","title":"Selected Poems 1966-1987","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Between my fingers and my thumb\u003cbr\u003eThe squat pen rests.\u003cbr\u003eI'll dig with it.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelected Poems 1966-1987\u003c\/i\u003e assembles the groundbreaking work of the first half of Seamus Heaney's extraordinary career. This edition, arranged by the author himself, includes the seminal early poetry that struck readers with the force of revelation and heralded the arrival of an heir to Gerard Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, and Robert Frost.\u003cbr\u003e Helen Vendler called Heaney \"a poet of the in-between,\" and the work collected here dwells in the borderlands dividing the ancient and the contemporary, the mythic and the quotidian. Gathering poetry from his first seven collections, \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems 1966-1987\u003c\/i\u003e presents the young man from County Derry, Northern Ireland, who \"emerged from a hidden, a buried life\" in \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Naturalist \u003c\/i\u003e(1966), with his cherished poems \"Digging\" and \"Mid-term Break\"; the poet of conscience \"as bleak as he is bright\" in \"Whatever You Say Say Nothing\" and \"Singing School\"; and the astonishingly gifted, mature craftsman behind \u003ci\u003eField Work \u003c\/i\u003e(1979) and \u003ci\u003eStation Island\u003c\/i\u003e (1984)--an artist uncannily attuned to the \"music of what happens,\" restlessly searching \"for images and symbols adequate to our predicament.\"\u003cbr\u003e This volume, together with its companion \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems 1988-2013\u003c\/i\u003e, allows us to revisit the essential work of one of the great writers of our age through his own compilation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeamus Heaney\u003c\/b\u003e (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include \u003ci\u003eOpened Ground\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eElectric Light\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Spirit Level\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDistrict and Circle\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFinders Keepers\u003c\/i\u003e. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the \"most important Irish poet since Yeats.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fsg Adult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526982897938,"sku":"9780374535605","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_63962e84-109b-48ad-ae65-85e1f6a34c94.jpg?v=1731288881","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/selected-poems-1966-1987-9780374535605","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}