Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978

by Seamus Heaney

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Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations , begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0374516502

ISBN13:9780374516505

Release Date:September 1981

Publisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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