Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978

seamus heaney

Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations , begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin.

Genres poetrynonfictionirelandliterary criticismirish literatureliteraturecriticismessays

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1980

This edition

Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Published: September 1, 1981 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374516505
ASIN: 0374516502
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.