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Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 Paperback - 1999

by Seamus Heaney

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The definitive choice of the Nobel laureate's best poems, bringing the reader up to date with the work Heaney has published since 1987.

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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."

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  • Title Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
  • Author Seamus Heaney
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
  • Publication date 1999-10-25
  • ISBN 9780374526788 / 0374526788
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.6 x 1.2 in (20.83 x 14.22 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
    • Chronological Period: 1980's
    • Chronological Period: 1990's
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Ethnic Orientation: Irish
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Ireland
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98004331
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.914

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Citations

  • Commonweal, 06/20/2003, Page 22
  • Ingram Advance, 10/01/1999, Page 190
  • New York Times, 10/24/1999, Page 48

About the author

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats."
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