Door into the Dark, Heaney's second collection of poems, first appeared in 1969. Already his widely celebrated gifts of precision, thoughtfulness, and musicality were everywhere apparent.

Product Description: Field Work, which first appeared in 1979, is a superb collection of lyrics and narrative poems from one of the literary masters of our time. As the critic Dennis Donoghue wrote in The New York Times Book Review: "In 1938, not a moment too soon, W...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This volume gathers nearly all of the poems from Heaney's first four collections: Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), and North (1975).

A modern version of the medieval Irish work, 'Buile Suibne,' features the colorful hero Mad Sweeney, who undertakes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and transformed into a bird at the Battle of Moira

A modern version of the medieval Irish work, 'Buile Suibne,' features the colorful hero Mad Sweeney, who undertakes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and transformed into a bird at the Battle of Moira

Poems deal with a pilgrim's spiritual journey, the story of an ancient Irish king, and children, nature, change, travel, mortality, and religion

Gathers a wide selection of poems by American and British authors, including Frost, Ginsberg, Graves, Eliot, Hardy, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Wordsworth, and Auden

Poems deal with fathers, the past, mortality, nature, violence, school, rural life, love, fear, and childhood (view table of contents)

Brief poems consider sunlight, myths, death, the past, ancient rituals, courtship, dreams, and justice

Poems exploring the theme of loss, meditations on the conscience of the writer, and exercises in an allegorical vein are featured in this collection of thirty-one poems (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this volume of critical essays, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness, and we are reminded, above all, of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself...read more

Product Description: This critically-acclaimed body of work brings together roughly 100 poems culled by Seamus Heaney from nine of his collections. "It is a retrospective event, by definition selective, but also full-bodied and useful."--Edward Hirsch, Boston Globe. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Professor Seamus Heaney delivered his inaugural lecture on 24th October, 1989. The poet whom Professor Heaney chose to celebrate in his inaugural lecture was George Herbert. He described him as not just the epitome of English poetic virtue but the embodiment of certain qualities of phlegm, tolerance and equanimity which are usually ascribed to the English themselves...read more

Marin Sorescu is one of the most powerful and prolific writers in contemporary Romania, but this collection is the first to bring his work to the attention of American readers. Enormously vital, playful, and down-to-earth, Sorescu's poems find an eloquent balance between the exigencies of twentieth-century politics and the edgy exhilaration of twentieth-century imaginative life. Through these translations, as Seamus Heaney says, "American readers now have direct entry into one of the most cheering and distinctive regions of the contemporary poetic imagination." Marin Sorescu was born in Romania in 1936 and has lived in Bucharest since 1960, working as an editor and the director of Animafilm Studios. In addition to publishing many volumes of poetry, he is also a playwright, essayist, translator, and writer of children's books. (view table of contents)

Interrelated, twelve-line poems called Squarings are among the works that recreate memories and move on to hallucinatory images

The Irish poet offers his adaptation of Sophocles' tale of Philoctetes who is marooned by the Greeks on their way to Troy

In an imaginative collaboration between poet and photographer, thirty-four photographs depict the likely landscape of Mad Sweeney's wanderings through the kingdom of Dal-Arie in the poem Sweeney Astray.

Product Description: Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)