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The Letters of Seamus Heaney
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ISBN10: 0374185298
ISBN13: 9780374185299
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Sep 10 2024
Pages: 848
Weight: 2.40
Height: 3.60 Width: 6.80 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780374185299
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Sep 10 2024
Pages: 848
Weight: 2.40
Height: 3.60 Width: 6.80 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
The letters provide us with an intimate, multilayered understanding of this extraordinary poet's life and mind.
Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were, or the Colmcille beehive hut, or the Mossbawn scullery. At any rate, a hedge surrounds me, the blackbird calls, the soul settles for an hour or two.In this astute selection from Seamus Heaney's vast correspondence, we are given direct access to the life and poetic development of a literary titan, from his early days in Belfast, through his controversial decision to settle in the Republic, to the gradual broadening of horizons that culminated in the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the years of international eminence that kept him heroically busy until his death. Christopher Reid draws from both public and private archives to reveal this remarkable story in the poet's own words. Generous, funny, exuberant, confiding, irreverent, empathetic, and deeply thoughtful, The Letters of Seamus Heaney encompasses decades-long relationships with friends and colleagues, as well as an unstinted responsiveness to passing acquaintances. Heaney's mastery of language is as evident here as it is in any of his writings; listening to his voice we find ourselves in the same room as a man whose presence enriched the world and whose legacy deepens our sense of what truly matters.
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