Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 -- Seamus Heaney, Paperback

As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and Sweeney Astray, and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other--by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive (Helen Vendler, The New Yorker)--and this is a one-volume testament to the musicality and precision of that voice. The book closes with Heaney's Nobel Lecture: Crediting Poetry.

Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 10/25/1999
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.60w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780374526788

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/24/1999 pg. 48
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 105
Ingram Advance 10/01/1999 pg. 190
Commonweal 06/20/2003 pg. 22

About the Author
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the most important Irish poet since Yeats.