Overview: SEAMUS HEANEY (1939-2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, translator and lecturer, and the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."
The Spirit-level as a Seismoscope
β Scribed by BENNETT, G. T.
- Book ID
- 109442158
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 1905
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 144 KB
- Volume
- 72
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- DOI
- 10.1038/072080a0
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'An irresistibly coherent book which celebrates the rising and the raising of the human spirit.' Michael Hofmann, The Times 'If any poetry written today can have this 'redemptive effect' - as Heaney in his critical writing has begun to claim it can - then this is it.' Mick Imlah, Independent on Sund
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