Finders Keepers by Seamus Heaney

Finders Keepers by Seamus Heaney

Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world?"

Along with a selection from the poet's three previous collections of prose ( Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, and The Redress of Poetry ), the present volume includes Heaney's finest lectures and a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to radio commentaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets - Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors and contemporaries - Finders Keepers is, as its title indicates, "an announcement of both excitement and possession."

Heaney, Seamus: - Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, appeared in 2008; Human Chain, his last volume of poems, was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He died in 2013.

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ISBN 13	9780374154967
ISBN 10	0374154961
Title	Finders Keepers
Author	Seamus Heaney
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Farrar Straus Giroux
Year published	2002-06-26
Number of pages	432
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