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Reporting on the Eliot Prize, the BBC commented in 2007, "The award is yet more confirmation, as if it was needed, of Heaney's reputation as, arguably, the English language's greatest living bard, whom author Malcolm Bradbury once described as 'the poet of poets'." In 2013, Heaney's volumes made up
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wrote, "Due in large part to the richness of his language, and also to the undiminished freshness of his response to time-honoured things, its consolidations have the feel of celebrations. The book does not merely dig in, but digs deep." The poet and critic
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The critic Peter McDonald said "The book contains marvellous prose-poems on the peopled landscapes of his schooldays, along with sonnets - seemingly effortless in their sheer fluency, but memorably tough and intent".
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was not "as immediate as his earlier work," but he still considered the book to be successful on its own terms, characterizing it as "a late flowering."
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to the Canadian professor of Irish Studies Ann Saddlemyer. Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the
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Sep/Oct 2006 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a
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also praised the book, writing that "anyone who isn’t impressed isn’t listening."
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The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
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The title alludes to how he used to travel to work in the 1960s on the
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has been widely and positively reviewed by the critics. On
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Cavafy: 'The Rest I'll Speak of to the Ones Below in Hades’
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two-thirds of the sales of living poets in Britain.
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Seamus Heaney
Faber and Faber
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
0-571-23096-2
ISBN
0-374-53081-5
ISBN
0-571-23097-0
ISBN
0-374-53081-5
OCLC
62891650
Electric Light
Human Chain
Seamus Heaney
Nobel Prize in Literature
T. S. Eliot Prize
Irish Times
Poetry Now Award
Seamus Heaney Collected Poems
Bookmarks Magazine
Andrew Motion
Stephanie Burt
Brad Leithauser
The New York Times
Stephen Knight
Human Chain
District

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