by Seamus Heaney · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571143726
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«New Selected Poems 1966-1987» is Seamus Heaney's poetry anthology, published by Penguin UK in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Volume gathering selected poems from the books Seamus Heaney published between 1966 and 1987, up to The Haw Lantern, winner of the Whitbread Prize. His poetry approaches thought, the world and emotions, reflects a rich and fertile life, and connects the outer landscape with the reader's own identity.
The anthology was originally published in 1990 and includes poems from Death of a Naturalist, Door into the Dark, North, Field Work and The Haw Lantern.
For readers of modern poetry and Irish literature; Heaney was Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1995.
Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".
