by Seamus Heaney · Faber Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571144693
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«Seeing Things» is Seamus Heaney's poetry collection, published by Faber Paperbacks in paperback (113 pages, in English).
The collection starts from the real and opens onto the visionary: the title poem uses a concrete memory to move toward the extraordinary, without losing the weight of the sensory. The «Squarings» sequence develops that gaze in twelve-line poems, and the translations of Virgil and Homer frame the whole with journeys to the other world.
«Seeing Things» was originally published in 1991, and Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.
For readers of contemporary poetry and for those wishing to discover the Irish lyric of Seamus Heaney.
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".
