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The Spirit Level : Poems
Published by Faber & Faber, 1996
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1996 Faber Paperback 1st Edition 1st Impression. Like new appears unread. Seller Inventory # ABE-12860138681
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Spirit Level : Poems
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication Date: 1996
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 1st Edition
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Synopsis:
A collection of poems from the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. The poems discover the possibility of a new beginning in many subjects and circumstances. Private memories, classical scenes and humble domestic objects are endowed with talismanic significance and friends and relatives are invoked for their promise and steadfastness.
Review:
The title of Seamus Heaney's first collection of poetry since winning the Nobel Prize in 1995 is the term used in Ireland for a carpenter's level, an earthy physical allusion to matters of spirit that is quintessential Heaney. And indeed this volume deals masterfully with the finding of a level balancing point in ethical, moral, and spiritual affairs. Heaney has famously likened his craft to the farming activities of his childhood, comparing his pen to his father's spade; here he extends that analogy, comparing the lines of a poem to furrows being plowed in the earth, and "the poem as ploughshare that turns time/ Up and over." Heaney's furrows are straight and clean, his loamy lines abundantly fertile.
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