Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981 - Literary Collections - 224 pages

Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations, begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin.

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About the author (1981)

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened 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."

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TitlePreoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978
AuthorSeamus Heaney
Editionreprint
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981
ISBN0374516502, 9780374516505
Length224 pages
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Literary Collections / Essays
Literary Collections / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Collections / General
  
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