Delving into his literary heritage and his own voice in the modern world, this current collection contains the Nobel Prize winner's greatest lectures, short newspaper articles, radio commentaries, and other richly textured pieces. 10,000 first printing.
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays includeOpened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level,District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats."