100 Poems

100 Poems

by Seamus Heaney
100 Poems

100 Poems

by Seamus Heaney

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Overview

Selected poems from a Nobel laureate

In 100 Poems, readers will enjoy the most loved and celebrated poems, and will discover new favorites, from "The Cure at Troy" to "Death of a Naturalist." It is a singular and welcoming anthology, reaching far and wide, for now and for years to come.


Seamus Heaney had the idea to make a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, a collection small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, but now, finally, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. No other selection of Heaney’s poems exists that has such a broad range, drawing from the first to the last of his prizewinning collections.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374538972
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 08/11/2020
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 209,545
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) was born in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966 and was followed by numerous volumes of poetry, plays, criticism, and translation, establishing him as one of the leading English-language poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His translation of Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI was published posthumously in 2016 to great critical acclaim.

Table of Contents

Contents

Family Note

Digging
Death of a Naturalist
Blackberry-Picking
Follower
Mid-Term Break
The Diviner
Twice Shy
Scaffolding
Personal Helicon
The Forge
The Peninsula
Requiem for the Croppies
Night Drive
The Given Note
Bogland
Anahorish
Broagh
The Other Side
The Tollund Man
Wedding Day
Westering
Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication
1 Sunlight
2 The Seed Cutters
Funeral Rites
The Grauballe Man
Punishment
from Whatever You Say Say Nothing
from Singing School
1 The Ministry of Fear
2 A Constable Calls
4 Summer 1969
6 Exposure
Oysters
A Drink of Water
The Strand at Lough Beg
Casualty
The Singer’s House
Elegy
from Glanmore Sonnets
The Otter
The Skunk
Song
The Harvest Bow
In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge
The Underground
A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann
A Kite for Michael and Christopher
The Railway Children
from Station Island
Alphabets
The Haw Lantern
from the Republic of Conscience
The Stone Verdict
from Clearances
The Wishing Tree
from The Cure at Troy
Markings
Seeing Things
I.I.87
Field of Vision
from Glanmore Revisited
A Pillowed Head
Fosterling
from Lightenings
from Crossings
The Rain Stick
A Sofa in the Forties
Keeping Going
Two Lorries
St Kevin and the Blackbird
The Gravel Walks
A Call
A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also
At the Wellhead
At Banagher
Postscript
from Out of the Bag
The Clothes Shrine
from Sonnets from Hellas
Anahorish 1944
Anything Can Happen
Helmet
District and Circle
Midnight Anvil
The Lift
Höfn
Tate’s Avenue
The Blackbird of Glanmore
‘Had I not been awake’
The Conway Stewart
Chanson d’Aventure
Miracle
Human Chain
from Route 110
‘The door was open and the house was dark’
In the Attic
A Kite for Aibhín
In Time

Index

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