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The Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Neil Corcoran
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Description for The Poetry of Seamus Heaney
Paperback. The original edition of this work was entitled "A Student's Guide to Seamus Heaney". It has been revised throughout and contains additional chapters on each of Heaney's poetry collections published since the first edition, as well as separate discussions of his work as a translator and essayist. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile; (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 198 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 240.
Seamus Heaney's poetic career has been one of constant development and expansion, and his place among the world's greatest literary figures is universally acknowledged. When it first appeared in 1986, Neil Corcoran's A Student's Guide to Seamus Heaney was immediately recognized as the clearest and most thorough account of his work so far, and it has not been rivalled since. The new edition, which like the original has had the advantage of Seamus Heaney's own cooperation and unstinted access to the poet's papers, follows the same pattern, adding a chapter apiece on the major collections of poems published since 1986, ... Read more
Seamus Heaney's poetic career has been one of constant development and expansion, and his place among the world's greatest literary figures is universally acknowledged. When it first appeared in 1986, Neil Corcoran's A Student's Guide to Seamus Heaney was immediately recognized as the clearest and most thorough account of his work so far, and it has not been rivalled since. The new edition, which like the original has had the advantage of Seamus Heaney's own cooperation and unstinted access to the poet's papers, follows the same pattern, adding a chapter apiece on the major collections of poems published since 1986, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571177479
SKU
9780571177479
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Ref
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About Neil Corcoran
Neil Corcoran is King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of a biography of Seamus Heaney (1986), as well as Elizabeth Bowen: The Enforced Return (2008) and Shakespeare and the Modern Poet (2010), and is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry (2007).
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