The Spirit Level: Poems

seamus heaney

The Spirit Level was the first book of poems Heaney published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Reviewing this book in The New York Times Book Review , Richard Tillinghast noted that Heaney "has been and is here for good . . . [His poems] will last. Anyone who reads poetry has reason to rejoice at living in the age when Seamus Heaney is writing."

Genres poetryirelandirish literatureliteraturenobel prize20th centurynonfictionliterary fiction

82 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1996

Literary awards

whitbread award, audie award,

This edition

Format: 82 pages, Paperback
Published: April 10, 1997 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374525118
ASIN: 0374525110
Language: English

About the author

seamus heaney

Works of Irish poet Seamus Justin Heaney reflect landscape, culture, and political crises of his homeland and include the collections Wintering Out (1972) and Field Work (1979) as well as a translation of Beowulf (1999). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995.

This writer and lecturer won this prize "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."

Heaney on Wikipedia.