New Selected Poems
A Fiction, Classics, Cultural book. There is no denying Heaney's brilliance. These early poems reveal his Irish heritage with rich, stark images:...
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- Pages: 244 pages
- ISBN: 9781853567377 / 0
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There is no denying Heaney's brilliance. These early poems reveal his Irish heritage with rich, stark images: you can smell the bogs, hear the water running alongside the "broagh" (a wonderful poem that reminds us gently of the Gaelic-English linguistic divide), and feel his schoolboy melancholy as well as share his adolescent awakenings.... It's a lovely selection of some of Heaney's best mid career poems. What's not to like? It doesn't have the unity of a collection but then again there's no weak or less interesting poems. Many of those included are among his best. It's lyrical, gentle but shot through with intelligence and wit. There's many layers to these seemingly... Several of these poems are now very familiar to Irish schoolchildren"Digging", for example, and the moving "Mid Term Break." Some of these poemsto with Irish history, landscape, the good and bad aspects of living in a close-knit rural communityI found really wonderful and spoke to my own experiences growing up. Heaney has a real gift...
