Rattle Bag - Hardcover

Heaney, Seamus & Ted Hughes (editors)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571119662 ISBN 13: 9780571119660

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1982

Synopsis

A collection of more than 400 hundred poems from all around the world.

About this title

About the Author:

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats."

Ted Hughes, the author of numerous books of poetry, prose, and translation, was Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II until his death in 1998. His last book of poems, Birthday Letters, won the Whitbread Book of the Year award―and was a much-discussed national bestseller. He lived in Devon, England.

Review:

“The method employed in arranging and presenting [the contents of this book] must surely be the one for all the best anthologies . . . The Rattle Bag sets a standard which other anthologies will find it difficult to equal.” ―Alan Brownjohn, Times Literary Supplement (London)

“A splendid, huge, resonant book.” ―Observer (London)

“A must for anyone at all who likes poetry.” ―Melvyn Bragg, The Times (London)

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0571119662
• ISBN 13: 9780571119660
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1