Stepping Stones

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Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney is personal, political, funny, and passionate, and his poetry weaves together details of the land, history, archaeology and current events in Ireland. His introuductions to the poems make these connections clear, and his lyrical readings bring alive these poems whhich are among the most important and relevant of the second half of the century.

Genres poetrynonfictionbiographyirelandwritingliteraturememoirirish literatureliterary criticismcriticism

2 pages, Audio Cassette

First published November 6,2008

Literary awards

bord gáis energy irish book award,

This edition

Format: 2 pages, Audio Cassette
Published: June 1, 1996 by Penguin Audio
ISBN: 9780140863734
ASIN: 0140863737
Language: English

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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (1939 - 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume....

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.