Book description
'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and
has made the giant step towards the most ambitious, most intractable
themes of maturity. The power of this book comes from a sense that he
is reaching out towards a type of desolation and of isolation without
which no imagination can be seen to have grown up.' Eavan Boland,
Irish Times 'Keyed and pitched unlike any other significant poet at
work in the language anywhere.' Harold Bloom, Times Literary Supplement
Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of
a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966 and since
then he has published poetry, criticism and translations - including
Beowulf (1999) - which have established him as one of the leading poets
now at work. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
District and Circle (2006) was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2006.
Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll,
appeared in 2008. In 2009 he received the David Cohen Prize for
Literature.
