Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations, begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin.
Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978
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Author(s)Seamus Heaney
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN / ASIN0374516502
ISBN-139780374516505
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