Title: Stepping stones : interviews with Seamus Heaney /
Authors: O'Driscoll, Dennis.
Publisher: Faber and Faber,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Heaney, Seamus, Interviews.; Poets, Irish Interviews.
Abstract: Product Description: Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, "Stepping Stones" retraces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature and his post-Nobel life. It is supplemented with a large number of photographs, many from the Heaney family album and published here for the first time. In response to firm but subtle questioning from Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney sheds a personal light on his work (poems, essays, translations, plays) and on the artistic and ethical challenges he faced, providing an original, diverting and absorbing store of reflections, opinions and recollections.
Contents: Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Chronology -- Maps -- Part 1: Bearings -- 1: From home to school -- 2: Growing into poetry -- Part 2: On The Books -- 3: Hazel stirred: death of a naturalist -- 4: Inwards and downwards: door into the dark -- 5: Vowels and history: wintering out -- 6: Bleb of the icicle: North -- 7: Life we're shown: field work -- 8: To the edge of the water: Station Island -- 9: Books stood open and the gates unbarred: Harvard -- 10: River in the trees: the haw lantern -- 11: Time to be dazzled: seeing things -- 12: Keeping going: the spirit level -- 13: So deeper into it: electric light, district and circle -- 14: In a wooden O: field day, Oxford professor of poetry, translation -- 15: Ear to the line: writing and reading -- 16: In conclusion -- Seamus Heaney: books and interviews -- Biographical glossary -- Photograph credits -- Index.