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- Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
- ISBN: 057110813X
- WAPI (Tower ID): 101167554
- Release Date: January 1, 1985
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #248113 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #1773 in Poetry (See Top 100 Poetry Bestsellers)
- #224 in English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh (See Top 100 English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "North" by Seamus Heaney to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "North"Browse more products related to "Seamus Heaney"Review"In what is by far his best book...the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience, and the idea of the north allows the poet to contemplate the violence on his home ground in relation to the memories of the Scandinavian and English invasions which have marked Irish history so indelibly....These new poems have all the sensuousness of Mr. Heaney's earlier work, but refined and cut back to the bone. They are solid, beautifully wrought, expansively resonant. They recognize tragedy and violence without despairingly allowing them to flog human utterance into fragments....This is not only mature; it is noble." "Heaney,, to my mind the best poet now writing in Ireland, seems the only one of his generation not in some way inhibited by the shadow of Yeats. Though he shares Yeat's love of the archaic, with its combination of the civilized and the stark, he unearths his archaism not in Celtic legends but in the bodies of long-dead Vikings, buried and preserved in Irish and Scandinavian bogs." Publisher's noteBrief poems consider sunlight, myths, death, the past, ancient rituals, courtship, dreams, and justice. AnnotationContains the famous "bog poems," Heaney's meditations on the bodies of Vikings found preserved in the bogs of northern countries. If You Enjoy "North (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "North (Paperback)" by Seamus Heaney (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Bestsellers
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