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Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 by Heaney, Seamus
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 3 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780374526788
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374526788
ISBN-13
9780374526788
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1033302
Product Key Features
Book Title
Opened Ground : Selected Poems, 1966-1996
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Topic
European / French, European / General, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Poetry
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
16.9 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
98-004331
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
Perhaps the best descriptions of Seamus Heaney's extraordinarily rich and varied oeuvre come from the poet's own work. Mr. Heaney has created a remarkable series of poems that stay 'true to the impact of external reality' while at the same time remaining 'sensitive to the inner laws of the poet's being.', "[This collection] eloquently confirms his status as the most skillful and profound poet writing in English today."--Edward Mendelson,The New York Times Book Review "Perhaps the best descriptions of Seamus Heaney's extraordinarily rich and varied oeuvre come from the poet's own work. Mr. Heaney has created a remarkable series of poems that stay 'true to the impact of external reality' while at the same time remaining 'sensitive to the inner laws of the poet's being.'"--Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times "Having just reread most of his poems, I find myself more, not less, interested, and convinced that I have only begun to plumb their bracing depths . . . The poems stay in the mind, which is the one essential feature of major poetry."--Jay Parini,The Nation "Heaney's commitment to the independence of his art, to the pursuit of shape and richness and abundant ambiguity, is also a profound commitment to the quality of public life . . . In a dark time, Heaney . . . has turned borders and dividing lines into rich frontiers."--Fintan O'Toole,The New York Review of Books, "[This collection] eloquently confirms his status as the most skillful and profound poet writing in English today." -- Edward Mendelson, The New York Times Book Review "Perhaps the best descriptions of Seamus Heaney's extraordinarily rich and varied oeuvre come from the poet's own work. Mr. Heaney has created a remarkable series of poems that stay 'true to the impact of external reality' while at the same time remaining 'sensitive to the inner laws of the poet's being.'" -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Having just reread most of his poems, I find myself more, not less, interested, and convinced that I have only begun to plumb their bracing depths . . . The poems stay in the mind, which is the one essential feature of major poetry." -- Jay Parini, The Nation "Heaney's commitment to the independence of his art, to the pursuit of shape and richness and abundant ambiguity, is also a profound commitment to the quality of public life . . . In a dark time, Heaney . . . has turned borders and dividing lines into rich frontiers." -- Fintan O'Toole, The New York Review of Books, [This collection] eloquently confirms his status as the most skillful and profound poet writing in English today., Having just reread most of his poems, I find myself more, not less, interested, and convinced that I have only begun to plumb their bracing depths . . . The poems stay in the mind, which is the one essential feature of major poetry., "[This collection] eloquently confirms his status as the most skillful and profound poet writing in English today."--Edward Mendelson, The New York Times Book Review "Perhaps the best descriptions of Seamus Heaney's extraordinarily rich and varied oeuvre come from the poet's own work. Mr. Heaney has created a remarkable series of poems that stay 'true to the impact of external reality' while at the same time remaining 'sensitive to the inner laws of the poet's being.'"--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Having just reread most of his poems, I find myself more, not less, interested, and convinced that I have only begun to plumb their bracing depths . . . The poems stay in the mind, which is the one essential feature of major poetry."--Jay Parini, The Nation "Heaney's commitment to the independence of his art, to the pursuit of shape and richness and abundant ambiguity, is also a profound commitment to the quality of public life . . . In a dark time, Heaney . . . has turned borders and dividing lines into rich frontiers."--Fintan O'Toole, T he New York Review of Books, "[This collection] eloquently confirms his status as the most skillful and profound poet writing in English today."--Edward Mendelson, The New York Times Book Review "Perhaps the best descriptions of Seamus Heaney's extraordinarily rich and varied oeuvre come from the poet's own work. Mr. Heaney has created a remarkable series of poems that stay 'true to the impact of external reality' while at the same time remaining 'sensitive to the inner laws of the poet's being.'"--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Having just reread most of his poems, I find myself more, not less, interested, and convinced that I have only begun to plumb their bracing depths . . . The poems stay in the mind, which is the one essential feature of major poetry."--Jay Parini, The Nation "Heaney's commitment to the independence of his art, to the pursuit of shape and richness and abundant ambiguity, is also a profound commitment to the quality of public life . . . In a dark time, Heaney . . . has turned borders and dividing lines into rich frontiers."--Fintan O'Toole, The New York Review of Books, Heaney's commitment to the independence of his art, to the pursuit of shape and richness and abundant ambiguity, is also a profound commitment to the quality of public life . . . In a dark time, Heaney . . . has turned borders and dividing lines into rich frontiers.
Dewey Decimal
821/.914
Table Of Content
Author''s Note from Death of a Naturalist (1966) Digging Death of a Naturalist The Barn Blackberry-Picking Churning Day Follower Mid-Term Break The Diviner Poem Personal Helicon Antaeus (1966) from Door into the Dark (1969) The Outlaw The Forge Thatcher The Peninsula Requiem for the Croppies Undine The Wife''s Tale Night Drive Relic of Memory A Lough Neagh Sequence The Given Note Whinlands The Plantation Bann Clay Bogland from Wintering Out (1972) Fodder Bog Oak Anahorish Servant Boy Land Gifts of Rain Toome Broagh Oracle The Backward Look A New Song The Other Side Tinder (from A Northern Hoard) The Tollund Man Nerthus Wedding Day Mother of the Groom Summer Home Serenades Shore Woman Limbo Bye-Child Good-night Fireside Westering from Stations (1975) Nesting-Gound July England''s Difficulty Visitant Trial Runs The Wanderer Cloistered The Stations of the West Incertus from North (1975) Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication 1. Sunlight 2. The Seed Cutters Funeral Rites North Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces Bone Dreams Bog Queen The Grauballe Man Punishment Strange Fruit Kinship Act of Union Hercules and Antaeus from Whatever You Say Say Nothing Singing School 1. The Ministry of Fear 2. A Constable Calls 3. Orange Drums, Tyrone, 1966 4. Summer 1969 5. Fosterage 6. Exposure from Field Work (1979) Oysters Triptych After a Killing Sibyl At the Water''s Edge 0The Toome Road A Drink of Water The Strand at Lough Beg Casualty Badgers The Singer''s House The Guttural Muse Glanmore Sonnets An Afterwards The Otter The Skunk A Dream of Jealousy Field Work Song Leavings The Harvest Bow In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge Ugolino from Sweeney Astray (1983) Sweeney in Flight The Names of the Hare (1981) from Station Island (1984) The Underground Sloe Gin Chekhov on Sakhalin Sandstone Keepsake from Shelf Life Granite Chip Old Smoothing Iron Stone from Delphi Making Strange The Birthplace Changes A Bat on the Road A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann A Kite for Michael and Christopher The Railway Children Widgeon Sheelagh na Gig ''Aye'' (from The Loaning) The King of the Ditchbacks Station Island from Sweeney Redivivus The First Gloss Sweeney Redivivus In the Beech The First Kingdom The First Flight Drifting Off The Cleric The Hermit The Master The Scribes Holly An Artist The Old Icons In Illo Tempore On the Road Villanelle for an Anniversary (1986) from The Haw Lantern (1987) Alphabets Terminus From the Frontier of Writing The Haw Lantern From the Republic of Conscience Hailstones The Stone Verdict The Spoonbait Clearances The Milk Factory The Wishing Tree Grotus and Conventina Wolfe Tone From the Canton of Expectation The Mud Vision The Disappearing Island The Riddle from The Cure at Troy (1990) Voices from Lemnos from Seeing Things (1991) The Golden Bough Markings Man and Boy Seeing Things An August Night Field of Vision The Pitchfork The Settle Bed from Glanmore Revisited A Pillowed Head A Royal Prospect Wheels within Wheels Fosterling from Squarings Lightenings Settings Crossings Squarings A Transgression (1994) from The Spirit Level (1996) The Rain Stick Mint A Sofa in the Forties Keeping Going Two Lorries Damson Weighing In St. Kevin and the Blackbird from The Flight Path Mycenae Lookout The Gravel Walks Whitby-sur-Moyola ''Poet''s Chair'' The Swing Two Stick Drawings A Call The Errand A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also The Strand The Walk At the Wellhead At Banagher Tollund Postscript Crediting Poetry (1995) Crediting Poetry Index of Titles Index of First Lines
Synopsis
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."
LC Classification Number
PR6058.E2065 1998
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