Electric Light

Informationen zum Autor Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist , his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). Stepping Stones , a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, appeared in 2008; Human Chain , his last volume of poems, was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He died in 2013. His translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI was published posthumously in 2016 to critical acclaim, followed in 2018 by 100 Poems , a selection of poems from his entire career, chosen by his family. Klappentext A new collection from the Nobel Laureate and winner of the 1999 Whitbread Book Of The Year Award, Seamus Heaney, which certainly represents a major publishing event. Publication will be acknowledged with major and widespread review coverage, profiles and features across all areas of the national and Irish media. "The greatest thing about Heaney is his adventurous progress from book to book and poem to poem, his refusal to rest on his laurels" "The Times". Hardback edition also available. Electric Light by Seamus Heaney is the eleventh collection from the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, full of delicately prescriptive tonalities. Zusammenfassung Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime.

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Electric Light by Seamus Heaney is the eleventh collection from the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, full of delicately prescriptive tonalities.

Auteur
Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. Death of a Naturalist, his first collection of poems, appeared in 1966, and was followed by poetry, criticism and translations which established him as the leading poet of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and twice won the Whitbread Book of the Year, for The Spirit Level (1996) and Beowulf (1999). Stepping Stones, a book of interviews conducted by Dennis O'Driscoll, appeared in 2008; Human Chain, his last volume of poems, was awarded the 2010 Forward Prize for Best Collection. He died in 2013. His translation of Virgil's Aeneid Book VI was published posthumously in 2016 to critical acclaim, followed in 2018 by 100 Poems, a selection of poems from his entire career, chosen by his family.

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A new collection from the Nobel Laureate and winner of the 1999 Whitbread Book Of The Year Award, Seamus Heaney, which certainly represents a major publishing event. Publication will be acknowledged with major and widespread review coverage, profiles and features across all areas of the national and Irish media. "The greatest thing about Heaney is his adventurous progress from book to book and poem to poem, his refusal to rest on his laurels" "The Times". Hardback edition also available.

Résumé
Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within the orbit of a single lifetime.