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The Spirit Level Book

The title of Seamus Heaney's first collection of poetry since winning the Nobel Prize in 1995 is the term used in Ireland for a carpenter's level, an earthy physical allusion to matters of spirit that is quintessential Heaney. And indeed this volume deals masterfully with the finding of a level balancing point in ethical, moral, and spiritual affairs. Heaney has famously likened his craft to the farming activities of his childhood, comparing his pen to his father's spade; here he extends that analogy, comparing the lines of a poem to furrows being plowed in the earth, and "the poem as ploughshare that turns time/ Up and over." Heaney's furrows are straight and clean, his loamy lines abundantly fertile.Read More

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  • Product Description

    The winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature presents a new volume of poems exploring life's new beginnings, the significance of ordinary objects, the legacy of a deceased Scottish poet, and the situation in his native Northern Ireland.

  • 0374267790
  • 9780374267797
  • Seamus Heaney
  • 1 June 1996
  • Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 81
  • 1 Amer ed
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