Death of a Naturalist Paperback / softback
by Seamus Heaney
Paperback / softback
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For the fortieth anniversary of its publication, in May 2006, Faber are reissuing Seamus Heaney's classic first collection, Death of a Naturalist, which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award, the E.C.
Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. 'His words give us the soil-reek of Ireland, the colourful violence of his childhood on a farm in Derry.
The full-blooded energy of these poems makes Death of a Naturalist the best first book of poems I've read for some time.' - C.B.
Cox in the Spectator 'The power and precision of his best poems are a delight, and as a first collection Death of a Naturalist is outstanding [...] His subject is those things which are inherent or inherited.
What he praises is to be praised in his own work.' - Christopher Ricks, New Statesman'Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime, To stare big-eyed Narcissus, into some springIs beneath all adult dignity.
I rhymeTo see myself, to set the darkness echoing.'
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:56 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:06/04/2006
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- ISBN:9780571230839
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:56 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:06/04/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780571230839