num_pages: 246
description: This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987).'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does.' John Banville'More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.' John Carey
language: English
title: New Selected Poems 1966-1987
titlecomplete: New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (Faber Poetry)
genres: 20th Century, Ireland, School, Poetry, Literature, Classics, Anthologies, Irish Literature, Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 2809
publisher: Faber and Faber