Title: Opened Ground
Subtitle: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
First published: 1998
Description: Seamus Heaney (winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1995) gathered over 200 of his best poems in this collection, selected from twelve of his previous books of published poetry. The selection covers the period 1966 - 1996. It also contains his Nobel Lecture, "Crediting Poetry", since, as the author explains, "the ground covered in the lecture is ground originally opened by the poems which here precede it."
Subjects: Poetry, Irish, contemporary, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Literary collections, Irish Poets, Irish poetry, Male authors, English poetry, Irish authors, Poètes irlandais, Anthologies, Poésie anglaise, Auteurs irlandais, Poésie
Places: Ireland
People: Seamus Heany, Professor of Poetry at Oxford University 1989-1994
Time periods: 1966-1996
LC classification: PR6058.E2 O65 1998