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| 1. |  | Beowulf (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) from Turtleback Price: $25.70 Customer Review:  This is a first-rate verse translation into a modern English heavily inflected by North Irish idioms, which will give an appropriately distant and foreign flavoring for most readers. Although the translation obeys the structural rules of the original verse to a very high degree, the result is... |
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| 2. | [no image] | The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky (FSG Audio) from Penguin Audio Price: $24.95 Customer Review:  A guided tour through hell written in the form of a poem? An idea that good only comes once in a thousand years. |
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| 3. |  | Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $6.71 Customer Review: Nabokov said the pleasures of reading literature can be sensed in the raising of the hairs on the spine, and there are spine tingling thrills aplenty in this ample collection of Heaney's poems. Within are his early nature poems evoking the earthy rural Irish country 'Digging', 'Death of a... |
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| 4. | [no image] | Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition Customer Review: This was my Father's favorite book. I had read it once years ago and thought I would probably never read it again. But, it became a need due to some period research. I chose this edition because of the included pictures, which would also aid in my research. I am very pleased with the readability and... |
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| 5. |  | Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Norton Critical Editions) from W. W. Norton & Company Price: $8.99 Customer Review: O.K. any highbrows should not read this review. I saw the movie Beowulf and at the end I was left hanging so I read the book and it was nothing like the Movie (surprize)But I loved it. |
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| 6. |  | The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles' Antigone from Faber and Faber Price: $9.98 Customer Review: Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He rewrites the fifth century Greek Sophocles' masterpiece Antigone in very readable modern English poetry. The story focuses on the never resolved conflict between a person's rights and the needs of the state. Antigone, the daughter of... |
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| 7. |  | The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $4.92 Customer Review: Other reviewers have noted that Heaney's translation, like any literary translation, serves a different purpose for its audience than the original work did for its audience. I just wanted to add that this translation is not _just_ a modernization of Sophocles' work. As an Irish unionist, Heaney... |
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| 8. |  | The Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $12.50 Customer Review: Philip Larkin, a curmudgeon after my own heart, once called Chaucer's //Troilus and Criseyde// "the most boring poem in the English language." Whatever word one might use to describe Seamus Heaney's new translation of fifteenth-century Scots poet Robert Henryson's followup to Chaucer, it isn't... |
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| 9. |  | The Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry from Faber & Faber Price: $13.31 Customer Review: In short: I have always loved this book, and I return to it often. The editors have assembled a wondrous array of world poems that , IMHO, succeed in meeting the goal of the text: To in some way present the joy of poetry to young people. I happen to be a non-poet in my 50's and The Rattle Bag is an... |
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| 10. |  | A Way of Life, Like Any Other (New York Review Books Classics) from NYRB Classics Price: $6.69 Customer Review: Reading A Way of Life Like Any Other was such an unexpected pleasure. Time after time I have believed good reviews from sources one used to respect and bought a book, only to find that the writing was mediocre at best. This time I was thrilled to discover really brilliant writing: living... |
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| 11. |  | Electric Light from Faber and Faber Price: $8.45 Customer Review: The book arrived in perfect condition on a timely basis. I will definitely order from Amazon again! |
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| 12. |  | Field Work: Poems from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $2.38 Customer Review: This was my first exposure to Seamus Heaney and his work (other than seeing the portly fellow with his unkempt white hair walking purposefully around campus here in Cambridge.) It is still my favorite collection of his work. Like all previous reviewers, I will not critique any particular poem, but... |
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| 13. |  | District and Circle: Poems from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $1.98 Customer Review: The title poem alone is worth the admission price. A great work, "Tollund Man" and other poems harken back to early Heaney--an elder echo to North, Wintering Out and Door Into the Dark. |
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| 14. |  | Poems, 1965-1975: Death of a Naturalist / Door Into the Dark / Wintering Out / North from Noonday Press Price: $8.41 Customer Review: Just a good read. As you would expect from Seamus Heaney. You can carry this book but Heaney can carry you. I strongly suggest this book to anyone interested in Irish poets/writers. I suggest this book for anyone interested in BOOKS!His imagery is deeper than most poets'. In the States _in school-... |
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| 15. |  | The Spirit Level from Faber and Faber Price: $7.78 Customer Review:  Seamus Heaney, The Spirit Level (FSG, 1996) Seamus Heaney has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Which is quite an achievement, and makes it a very daunting task to review one of his books. Perhaps more daunting for me (and those like me) than most; I'm a published poet myself, though the times... |
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| 16. |  | Driftless: Photographs from Iowa (Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography) from Duke University Press Price: $24.55 Customer Review: They are depressing pictures. definitely if you were to take color photos in the spring and summer there would be a much different mood. it conveys sadness for a corner of the world which seems to be slowly dying away. the pictures really got at the core of what it means to be iowan, the snow and... |
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| 17. |  | The People of the Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-folk (Canongate Classics) from Canongate Classics Price: $31.98 Customer Review:  I was thrilled when I finally got hold of a copy of this book, but it disappointed me bitterly. I don't understand why the other reviewers are raving about it. It's actually very tedious. |
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| 18. |  | Seeing Things from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $1.74 Customer Review: Perhaps this book represents Heaney's finest poetry since 'Field Work.' It contains the magnificent sequence 'Squarings,' and a continuation of his Glanmore sonnets. The craftsmanship impeccable, the voice down-to-earth. We remember especially his sonnet on Lent in which the poet deals with 'A... |
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| 19. | [no image] | Collected Poems from The Gallery Press Customer Review: Pat Kavanagh's work shouts 'Irish" in every line. His perception of life, as viewed through the eyes of an early 20th century farmer, is the epitomy of what the human spirit is made. He literally sees into the soul of his beloved country. |
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| 20. |  | The Redress of Poetry from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $7.49 Customer Review: The Redress of Poetry is a series of lectures given by Seamus Heaney at Oxford; in all of them, he examines poetry and how it can be strong enough to help the reader, to act as an equal force to the life lived by the reader. He looks at all kinds of poets - Dylan Thomas, Christopher Marlowe, Yeats,... |
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| 21. |  | Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $5.71 Customer Review: As a person of Irish descent, I am especially proud of Seamus Heaney's contribution to poetry and literature study. His voice is uniquely Northern Irish, but his understanding of that which makes language and literature deep spans the world--its ages and cultures. With a poet's vision, Heaney... |
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| 22. |  | Death of a Naturalist (Faber Pocket Poetry) from Faber & Faber Price: $65.07 Customer Review: Seamus Heaney's first collection of poems is an accessible and understated experiment in lyrical description. It was written in 1966 and what first strikes the contemporary is an adherence to metrical and rhyming (usually off-rhyming) patterns now considered undesirably strict. Much of the time... |
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| 23. |  | Sweeney Astray from Faber and Faber Price: $9.03 Customer Review: "Sweeney Astray" is a masterpiece on many levels: for the complex weave of its themes to the lyrical quality of its prose--accentuated greatly, of course, by Seamus Heaney's virtuoso translation. We follow mad Sweeney in his crazed wanderings through the forest and hills, torn within himself by... |
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| 24. |  | Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $80.00 | |
| 25. |  | The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987 from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $7.28 | |
| 26. |  | The School Bag from Faber and Faber Price: $17.70 Customer Review: This collection, covering an astonishingly wide range of work from many different historical periods, should be in every library. With as many magical discoveries as old favorites. Not to be missed. (And be sure to find The Rattle Bag as well). |
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| 27. | [no image] | Human Chain: Poems from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Price: $16.32 | |
| 28. |  | North: Poems from Faber & Faber Price: $7.81 Customer Review: These poems connect the twenty first century reader with the Celtic past of Ireland, in a unique way: through the experience of the marauding Vikings. Wonderful poems with a mythic edge. Heaney is fantastic. Fans of Heaney's Beowulf translation will find a great introduction to his work here in... |
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| 29. |  | Laments: A Bilingual Edition from Noonday Press Price: $29.99 Customer Review: Without knowing some of the history of this work, "Laments" may seem merely a touching remembrance of the poet's daughter, whom he lost when she was only 3 years old. However, the poetic style that Kochanowski employs was reserved for those of fame and fortune, and it was considered socially... |
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| 30. |  | Station Island from Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) Price: $150.98 Customer Review: "Station Island" is a series of 12 poems in the second section of the book. It follows Dante's meeting with different shades in The Divine Comedy. Heaney himself claims to be deeply influenced by Dante, and it is a Dante through TS Eliot. Although unlike TS Eliot who increasingly become religious in... |
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