Door Into the Dark: Poems

seamus heaney

"Door into the Dark," Heaney's second collection of poems, first appeared in 1969. Already his widely celebrated gifts of precision, thoughtfulness, and musicality were everywhere apparent.

Genres poetryirelandliterature20th centuryirish literatureclassics

56 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1969

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Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 1972 by Faber \u0026 Faber
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Language: English

About the author

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.