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Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition by Seamus Heaney
$40.95 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
Composed at the end of the first millennium, "Beowulf" is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to its immense emotional credibility, Seamus Heaney gives the great epic convincing reality f ...Show more
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches ...Show more
Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Seamus Heaney's new collection elicits continuities and solidarities, between husband and wife, child and parent, then and now, inside an intently remembered present - the stepping stones of the day, the weight and heft of what is passed from hand to hand, lifted and lowered. "Human Chain" also broaches ...Show more
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
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Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
An updated selection of all Heaney's books, up to and including "The Haw Lantern", which was published in 1987. The book also includes selections from "Stations", prose poems of 1975 which have never appeared except as a pamphlet.
The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney
$24.95 AUD
Category: Creative Arts and Drama
Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, "The Burial at Thebes" is Seamus Heaney's verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, "Antigone" - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in western drama.
The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables by Seamus Heaney
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Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
The greatest of the late medieval Scottish makars, Robert Henryson wrote in Lowland Scots, a distinctive northern version of English. He was profoundly influenced by Chaucer's vision of the frailty and pathos of human life. His greatest poem, and one of the rhetorical masterpieces of the literature of t ...Show more
W.B. Yeats by W.B. Yeats; Seamus Heaney (selection by)
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Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us to be more resolutely and abundantly alive, whatever the conditions. ...Show more
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