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Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978

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Availability:In StockContributor:Seamus HeaneyPublish date:1981-09-01Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374516505ISBN-10:374516502UPC:9780374516505Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:European, EssaysBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.52 x 5.52 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCVZK05NB8

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374516505ISBN-10:374516502UPC:9780374516505Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:European, EssaysBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.52 x 5.52 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCVZK05NB8

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.


Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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