Preoccupations

Preoccupations Selected Prose, 1968-1978

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780374516505
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Imprint: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Pub date:
DEWEY: 821.009
Language: English
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 249g
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 19mm