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Door into the Dark

Seamus Heaney

Door into the Dark, by Seamus Heaney, depicts the Irish poet’s rural upbringing with the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing.

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Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780571101269
Date Published
07.10.2002
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Summary

Originally published in 1969, Seamus Heaney’s Door into the Dark continues a furrow so startlingly opened in his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966). With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing, these poems graphically depict the author’s rural upbringing, from the local forge to the banks of Lough Neagh, concluding in the preserving waters of the bogland and a look ahead to his next book, Wintering Out (1972).

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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…

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