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Seeing Things is the eighth poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 1991. Heaney draws inspiration from the visions of afterlife in Virgil and Dante Alighieri in order to come to terms with the death of his father, Patrick, in 1986.
- 128 pp
- Seamus Heaney
- 1991
- Faber and Faber
Seeing Things: Poems. Seamus Heaney. Macmillan, 1991 - Poetry - 107 pages. Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and...
Published in 1991, soon after he entered his fifties, Seeing Things saw the poet ready ‘to credit marvels’ in poems that often had an illusory quality, and included the sonnet sequence ‘Glanmore Revisited’, and the 48 twelve-line poems of ‘Squarings’.
30 de nov. de 2023 · “Seeing Things” is a profound collection of poetry by Seamus Heaney, a towering figure in modern Irish literature and a Nobel Laureate in Literature. This collection, published in 1991, delves into the themes of perception, memory, and the transcendence of the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Along with translations from the Aeneid and the Inferno, this book offers several poems about Seamus Heaney's late father. Preview this book » What people are saying -
1 de ene. de 1991 · Seeing Things is his ninth collection of poems and it draws inspiration from the visions of afterlife of Virgil and Dante Alighieri. Reading his poems makes you feel that you are standing on a crossroad with pieces of a big jigsaw puzzle around you and you have to take careful steps toward a certain direction.
Each in its individual way, the poems of Seeing Things suggest the author’s perception of the present in terms of personal and family history. Even so, each poem extends this perception and...
