Preoccupations - by Seamus Heaney (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, <i>Preoccupations</i>, 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Collected lectures and reviews by the gifted Irish poet Seamus Heaney . . . dealing intimately with composition as an act of mind more profound than mere rhetoric, and showing how the circumstances of composition extend to the most urgent, painful historical questions." --<i>Robert Pinsky, The New York Times Book Review</i></p><p>"We should feel privileged when a poet admits us to his workshop, as Seamus Heaney seems to do in <i>Preoccupations</i>." --<i>John Montague, The Guardian</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Seamus Heaney</b> was born in 1939 in Northern Ireland. His award-winning books of poetry include <i>The Haw Lantern</i> (FSG, 1987), <i>Seeing Things</i> (FSG, 1991), and <i>The Spirit Level</i> (FSG, 1996). A resident of Dublin, he has taught at Oxford and Harvard.</p>
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