Field Work - Hardcover

Heaney, Seamus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 057111430X ISBN 13: 9780571114306

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1979

Synopsis

(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. Field Work is the record of four years during which Seamus Heaney left the violence of Belfast to settle in a country cottage with his family in Glanmore, County Wicklow. Heeding an early warning system to get back inside my own head, Heaney wrote poems with a new strength and maturity, moving from the political concerns of his landmark volume North to a more personal, contemplative approach to the world and to his own writing. As the critic Dennis Donoghue wrote in The New York Times Book Review: In 1938, not a moment too soon, W. B. Yeats admonished his colleagues: 'Irish poets, learn your trade.' Seamus Heaney, born the following year, has learned his trade so well that it is now a second nature wonderfully responsive to his first. And the proof is in Field Work, a superb book . . . [This is] a perennial poetry offered at a time when many of us have despaired of seeing such a thing. In Field Work he brings a meditative music to bear upon fundamental themes of person and place, the mutuality of ourselves and the world Heaney is keyed and pitched unlike any significant poet now at work in the language, anywhere. Harold Bloom, The Times Literary Supplement For all the qualities I list, the most important is song [and] the tune Heaney sings [is] poetry's tune, resolutions of cherished language. Donald Hall, The Nation. Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His recent translations include Beowulf and Diary of One Who Vanished; his recent poetry collections include Opened Ground and Electric Light)

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Review

"A superb book, the most eloquent and far-reaching book [Heaney] has written, a perennial poetry offered at a time when many of us have despaired of seeing such a thing."--"The New York Times"

A superb book, the most eloquent and far-reaching book [Heaney] has written, a perennial poetry offered at a time when many of us have despaired of seeing such a thing. "The New York Times""

"A superb book, the most eloquent and far-reaching book [Heaney] has written, a perennial poetry offered at a time when many of us have despaired of seeing such a thing." --The New York Times

Book Description

Field Work by Seamus Heaney is further affirmation of the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet's pre-eminence in both the depth and immediacy that poetry is able to offer: 'I ate the day / Deliberately, that its tang / Might quicken me all into verb, pure verb.'

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 057111430X
• ISBN 13: 9780571114306
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64