Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and Sweeney Astray, and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other—"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive" (Helen Vendler, The New Yorker)—and this is a one-volume testament to the musicality and precision of that voice. The book closes with Heaney's Nobel Lecture: "Crediting Poetry."

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Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and Sweeney Astray, and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other—"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive" (Helen Vendler, The New Yorker)—and this is a one-volume testament to the musicality and precision of that voice. The book closes with Heaney's Nobel Lecture: "Crediting Poetry."

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Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

by Seamus Heaney
Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996

by Seamus Heaney

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As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and Sweeney Astray, and several previously uncollected poems. Heaney's voice is like no other—"by turns mythological and journalistic, rural and sophisticated, reminiscent and impatient, stern and yielding, curt and expansive" (Helen Vendler, The New Yorker)—and this is a one-volume testament to the musicality and precision of that voice. The book closes with Heaney's Nobel Lecture: "Crediting Poetry."


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374526788
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 10/25/1999
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 464
Sales rank: 473,026
Product dimensions: 5.45(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats."

Table of Contents

Author's Note

from Death of a Naturalist (1966)

Digging

Death of a Naturalist

The Barn

Blackberry-Picking

Churning Day

Follower

Mid-Term Break

The Diviner

Poem

Personal Helicon

Antaeus (1966)

from Door into the Dark (1969)

The Outlaw

The Forge

Thatcher

The Peninsula

Requiem for the Croppies

Undine

The Wife's Tale

Night Drive

Relic of Memory

A Lough Neagh Sequence

The Given Note

Whinlands

The Plantation

Bann Clay

Bogland

from Wintering Out (1972)

Fodder

Bog Oak

Anahorish

Servant Boy

Land

Gifts of Rain

Toome

Broagh

Oracle

The Backward Look

A New Song

The Other Side

Tinder (from A Northern Hoard)

The Tollund Man

Nerthus

Wedding Day

Mother of the Groom

Summer Home

Serenades

Shore Woman

Limbo

Bye-Child

Good-night

Fireside

Westering

from Stations (1975)

Nesting-Gound

July

England's Difficulty

Visitant

Trial Runs

The Wanderer

Cloistered

The Stations of the West

Incertus

from North (1975)

Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication

1. Sunlight

2. The Seed Cutters

Funeral Rites

North

Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces

Bone Dreams

Bog Queen

The Grauballe Man

Punishment

Strange Fruit

Kinship

Act of Union

Hercules and Antaeus from Whatever You Say Say Nothing

Singing School

1. The Ministry of Fear

2. A Constable Calls

3. Orange Drums, Tyrone, 1966

4. Summer 1969

5. Fosterage

6. Exposure

from Field Work (1979)

Oysters

Triptych

After a Killing

Sibyl

At the Water's Edge

0The Toome Road

A Drink of Water

The Strand at Lough Beg

Casualty

Badgers

The Singer's House

The Guttural Muse

Glanmore Sonnets

An Afterwards

The Otter

The Skunk

A Dream of Jealousy

Field Work

Song

Leavings

The Harvest Bow

In Memoriam Francis Ledwidge

Ugolino

from Sweeney Astray (1983)

Sweeney in Flight

The Names of the Hare (1981)

from Station Island (1984)

The Underground

Sloe Gin

Chekhov on Sakhalin

Sandstone Keepsake from Shelf Life

Granite Chip

Old Smoothing Iron

Stone from Delphi

Making Strange

The Birthplace

Changes

A Bat on the Road

A Hazel Stick for Catherine Ann

A Kite for Michael and Christopher

The Railway Children

Widgeon

Sheelagh na Gig

'Aye' (from The Loaning)

The King of the Ditchbacks

Station Island from Sweeney Redivivus

The First Gloss

Sweeney Redivivus

In the Beech

The First Kingdom

The First Flight

Drifting Off

The Cleric

The Hermit

The Master

The Scribes

Holly

An Artist

The Old Icons

In Illo Tempore

On the Road

Villanelle for an Anniversary (1986)

from The Haw Lantern (1987)

Alphabets

Terminus

From the Frontier of Writing

The Haw Lantern

From the Republic of Conscience

Hailstones

The Stone Verdict

The Spoonbait

Clearances

The Milk Factory

The Wishing Tree

Grotus and Conventina

Wolfe Tone

From the Canton of Expectation

The Mud Vision

The Disappearing Island

The Riddle

from The Cure at Troy (1990)

Voices from Lemnos

from Seeing Things (1991)

The Golden Bough

Markings

Man and Boy

Seeing Things

An August Night

Field of Vision

The Pitchfork

The Settle Bed from Glanmore Revisited

A Pillowed Head

A Royal Prospect

Wheels within Wheels

Fosterling from Squarings

Lightenings

Settings

Crossings

Squarings

A Transgression (1994)

from The Spirit Level (1996)

The Rain Stick

Mint

A Sofa in the Forties

Keeping Going

Two Lorries

Damson

Weighing In

St. Kevin and the Blackbird from The Flight Path

Mycenae Lookout

The Gravel Walks

Whitby-sur-Moyola

'Poet's Chair'

The Swing

Two Stick Drawings

A Call

The Errand

A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also

The Strand

The Walk

At the Wellhead

At Banagher

Tollund

Postscript

Crediting Poetry (1995)

Crediting Poetry

Index of Titles

Index of First Lines

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