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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).
Door into the Dark (1969) is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. [1] Poems include " Requiem for the Croppies ", "Thatcher" and "The Wife's Tale". Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.
Wintering Out also contains one of Heaney's most important bog poems. In "Tollund Man," Heaney builds upon the image of the bog that he introduces in Door into the Dark's "Bogland." Heaney was deeply moved by P.V. Glob's study of the mummified Iron Age bodies found in Jutland's peat bogs. Bogs were a familiar feature of the Northern Irish ...
Roy Fisher, Collected Poems; Thom Gunn, Poems 1950–1966 [11] David Harsent, A Violent Country; Seamus Heaney, Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom: Door into the Dark, Faber & Faber; A Lough Neagh Sequence, Phoenix; Adrian Henri, Tonight at Noon; John Hewitt, Northern Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, Collected Poems ...
In a number of volumes, beginning with Door into the Dark (1969) and Wintering Out (1972), Heaney also spent a significant amount of time writing on the northern Irish bog. Particularly of note is the collection of bog body poems in North (1975), featuring mangled bodies preserved in the bog.
McKenna is the seventh of nine children brought up on the farm in the townland of Forgetown. Her love of literature began in the early 1970s when her English teacher gave her a copy of Seamus Heaney's Door into the Dark. She asserts that his poetry "opened a door in the fearful me and I took refuge in the wonder of his prose.
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David Pollock Young (born December 14, 1936) is an American poet, translator, editor, literary critic and professor. His work includes 11 volumes of poetry, translations from Italian, Chinese, German, Czech, Dutch, and Spanish, critical work on Shakespeare , Yeats , and modernist poets, and landmark anthologies of prose poetry and magical realism.