Finders Keepers. Selected Prose 1971-2001. - SIGNED

Seamus Heaney (Seamus Justin Heaney, 1939-2013)

ISBN 10: 0571210805 / ISBN 13: 9780571210800

Published by Faber and Faber, London, 2002

About this Item

First edition thus. Tall thick 8vo. Pp. x, 416, [6 (blank)]. Publisher's cream-coloured boards, lettered in black to spine; grey endpapers. Pale blue-grey dustwrapper, printed in black and white. With a two-page Preface by Heaney. Signed by Author to title-page. A selection from the poet's three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue and The Redress of Poetry), the present volume also includes material from The Place of Writing, a series of lectures delivered at Emory University in 1988. Short newspaper articles and more extended lectures and contributions to books, including "Place and Displacement" (1984), previously only available as a pamphlet, complete the collection. Awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. [Brandes & Durkan A79a] 675.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Finders Keepers. Selected Prose 1971-2001. - SIGNED
• Publisher: Faber and Faber, London
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571210805
• ISBN 13: 9780571210800
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First edition thus.
• Condition: As new
• Dust Jacket Condition: As new
• Weight: 675 grams
• Signed: signed

About this title

Synopsis

"How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and to his contemporary world?" These are the questions addressed by Seamus Heaney in this collection of his critical prose. There are essays from three previous collections of prose and from "The Place of Writing", a series of lectures delivered in 1988 at Emory University. Also included are several pieces not previously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to more extended lectures and contributions to books, including "Place and Displacement" (1984), only available previously as a pamphlet, and "Burns's Art Speech", written for the bicentennial of Robert Burns's death.

About the Author

Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry in Northern Ir eland. He grew up in the country, on a farm, in touch with a traditional rural way of life, which he wrote about in his first book Death of a Naturalist (1966). He attended the local school and in 1951 went as a boarder to St Columb's College, about 40 miles away in Derry (the poem 'Singing School' in North refers to this period of his life). In 1956 he went on a scholarship to Queen's University, Belfast and graduated with a first class degree in English Language and Literature in 1961. After a year as a post-graduate at a college of education, and a year teaching in a secondary modern school in Ballymurphy, he was appointed to the staff of St Joseph's College of Education. In 1966 Seamus Heaney took up a lecturing post in the English Department of Queen's University, and remained there until 1972, spending the academic year 1970-71 as a visiting Professor at the University of California in Berkeley.</