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The book is a collection of Seamus Heaney's poems published between 1966 and 1996. It includes poems from Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), Stations (1975), North (1975), Field Work (1979), Station Island (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987), Seeing Things (1991), and The Spirit Level (1996).
Electric Light (Faber and Faber, 2001, ISBN 978-0-571-20798-5) is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.The collection explores childhood, nature, and poetry itself.
In the preface, Heaney states his editor, Paul Keegan, encouraged him to create the book. Numerous essays in the book were previously published in earlier collections, namely 1980 Preoccupations, [2] 1988 The Government of the Tongue, 1995 The Redress of Poetry, and the 1989 collection of "Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature" given in Emory University titled The Place of Writing.
Death of a Naturalist (1966) is a collection of poems written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.The collection was Heaney's first major published volume, and includes ideas that he had presented at meetings of The Belfast Group.
In the New York Review of Books, Al Alvarez calls Heaney an “intensely literary writer” and writes that the “reticence and self-containment” seen in North are not present in Field Work." Despite complimenting Heaney’s “real strength and originality” in “modest, perfect little poems," the review was notably unfavorable.
Richard Ellmann, in his review of Station Island for The New York Review of Books, praised the collection writing, "Many of these poems have a tough rind as though the author knew that for his purposes deferred comprehension was better than instant. Obliquity suits him. Heaney's talent, a prodigious one, is exfoliating and augmenting here." [10]
The Spirit Level is a 1996 poetry collection written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It won the poetry prize for the 1996 Whitbread Awards. [1] Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.
The poetry in District and Circle has been widely and positively reviewed by the critics. [6] On Bookmarks Magazine Sep/Oct 2006 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.5 out of 5) based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying, "Critics describe Heaney’s newest book of poetry as original, startling, authentic, even supernatural—and his ...