Heaney's final work was a unique take on Book VI of Virgil's "Aeneid", following Troy exile and Rome founder Aeneas's descent into the underworld. Heaney's translation was acclaimed upon release for being rich with poetic colour, and was...

Irische Sagen und Legenden, Räubergeschichten und Räuberpistolen, Eklogen und Elegien, Epigramme und Scherzgedichte, Meditationen und liebevolle Nachrufe auf die Weggefährten Joseph Brodsky, Zbigniew Herbert und Ted Hughes - der neue...

In den hier versammelten Versen sind alle Motive versammelt, die Heaneys Werk kennzeichnen und berühmt gemacht haben: die absurde politische Lage Irlands, der Gegensatz von künstlerischem und politischem Engagement und der Gegensatz von...

Heaney's poetry is made accessible through this selection of 100 of the best, ideal for new and younger readers and for use in schools. Coincides with the opening by the National Library of Ireland of a permanent exhibition dedicated to...

Mit Gedichten aus: / With poems from: - Tod eines Naturforschers / Death of a Naturalist - Tür ins Dunkel / Door into the dark - Überwintern / Wintering out - Norden / North von Heaney, Seamus

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...

Part of the Faber poetry repackaging programme. von Heaney, Seamus