num_pages: 82
description: The Spirit Level was the first book of poems Heaney published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. Reviewing this book in The New York Times Book Review , Richard Tillinghast noted that Heaney "has been and is here for good . . . [His poems] will last. Anyone who reads poetry has reason to rejoice at living in the age when Seamus Heaney is writing."
language: English
title: The Spirit Level: Poems
titlecomplete: The Spirit Level: Poems
genres: 20th Century, Ireland, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Literature, Nonfiction, Irish Literature
ratings_count: 1139
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Poetry and Book of the Year, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Audie Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux