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Death of a Naturalist (Heritage Edition)

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney’s classic collection reissued in a beautiful hardback edition with the original cover.

6 in stock

£14.99£12.99
Format
Hardback
ISBN
9780571328802
Date Published
21.01.2016
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Summary

Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
— from ‘Digging’

With its lyrical and descriptive powers, Death of a Naturalist, first published in 1966, marked the auspicious debut of one of the century’s finest poets.

‘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, 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

SeamusHeaney

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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