Product Description: "A faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right." —New York Times Book ReviewThe national bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Award. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the classic Northern epic of a hero’s triumphs as a young warrior and his fated death as a defender of his people...read more

Product Description: A Cycle of Love Songs Translated by the Nobel Laureate"Dappled woodland light,Spring well chill and bright,Eyes like stars at night,Open knees so white.Four things death itself won't cover,Unforgettable forever."In 1917, while reading his local newspaper, Leos Janacek discovered the poems that he was to set to music in his song cycle Diary of One Who Vanished...read more

Selected poems by the Nobel Prizewinning Irish poet are taken from Heaney's twelve previous collections and includes work published since 1987. Reprint.

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Product Description: In his early forties, while continuing to support himself as a laborer, we wrote, in quick succession three realistic plays about the slums of Dublin, known as the Dublin Trilogy. Juno and the Paycock, the second installment of the trilogy, was performed in the Abbey Theatre in 1924—the Abbey theatre produced the first installment of the trilogy, The Shadow of a Gunman (not included in this volume) in 1923...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Three prominent contemporary poets explore the relationship between Frost's character and his works

Product Description: This is an audiobook version of Seamus Heaney's "The Spirit Level".

The Nobel Prize-winning author presents a volume of poems that explores life's new beginnings, the significance of ordinary objects, the legacy of a deceased Scottish poet, and the situation in his native Northern Ireland. Reprint. NYT.

Product Description: Nobel Prize-winner Heaney introduces a volume that richly reflects every aspect of Hadzi's career, from intimate studio photographs to large architectural commissions. Hadzi's works in bronze and stone are powerfully abstract and expressionist, yet involved with the past as a literary and aesthetic source...read more

A poignant series of poems by one of the finest sixteenth-century Polish poets expresses the personal grief of the poet over the death of his young daughter and his growing sense of religious doubt. Reprint.

The 1995 Nobel laureate analyzes the works of a broad spectrum of poets to discuss poetry's ability to redress spiritual balance and to serve as a counterweight to oppressive forces. Reprint.

Presents a collection of poems from nine of the Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet's volumes.

Product Description: er 10, 1995. His Nobel Lecture offers a powerful defense of poetry as "the ship and the anchor" of our spirit within an ocean of violent, divisive world politics.

A poignant, lovingly rendered collection of intimate poems by a distinguished sixteenth-century Polish poet shares his grief, religious doubt, and struggle to cope with the death of his young daughter.

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)

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.

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

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

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)

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)

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