School Bag Seamus Heaney

Name: School Bag By Seamus Heaney
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School Bag by Seamus Heaney

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Summary

The editors of "The Rattle Bag" present an anthology which is designed as a history of the poetry of the British Isles and of poetry in the English language. It includes not only poems from the established canon, but also examples of Old English, Middle English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh poetry.

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School Bag by Seamus Heaney

'Ted Hughes, the poet laureate, and Seamus Heaney, the Nobel prizewinner, have set out to produce the best anthology they can imagine. The result is exciting, surprising, broad in its taste and pulls the readers through it like a novel.' Sean O'Brien, Sunday Times 'This is a very high-voltage book, crammed with poetic intensity.Heady, visionary, and voyaging, this one is a winner.' Robert Crawford, Independent

About Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry in Northern Ireland. He grew up in the country, on a farm, in touch with a traditional rural way of life, which he wrote about in his first book Death of a Naturalist (1966). He attended the local school and in 1951 went as a boarder to St Columb's College, about 40 miles away in Derry (the poem 'Singing School' in North refers to this period of his life). In 1956 he went on a scholarship to Queen's University, Belfast and graduated with a first class degree in English Language and Literature in 1961. After a year as a post-graduate at a college of education, and a year teaching in a secondary modern school in Ballymurphy, he was appointed to the staff of St Joseph's College of Education. In 1966 Seamus Heaney took up a lecturing post in the English Department of Queen's University, and remained there until 1972, spending the academic year 1970-71 as a visiting Professor at the University of California in Berkeley.

Additional information

Sku

GOR000941745

ISBN 13

9780571177516

ISBN 10

0571177514

Title

School Bag by Seamus Heaney

Author

Seamus Heaney

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Year published

1997-04-07

Number of pages

608

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us