num_pages: 224
description: Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations , begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin.
language: English
title: Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978
titlecomplete: Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978
genres: Ireland, Essays, Poetry, Literature, Criticism, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 103
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux