Selected Poems 1988-2013

by Seamus Heaney

Book Overview

A new edition of the later selected work of a Nobel Prize-winning poet

Often considered to be "the greatest poet of our age" (The Guardian), Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995 "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." He saw poetry as a vocation and credited it with "the power to persuade the vulnerable part of our consciousness of its rightness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374535612
• ISBN13: 9780374535612
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"