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Opened ground

selected poems, 1966-1996

1st Farrar, Straus and Giroux ed.

by Seamus Heaney

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Seamus Heaney (winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1995) gathered over 200 of his best poems in this collection, selected from twelve of his previous books of published poetry. The selection covers the period 1966 - 1996. It also contains his Nobel Lecture, "Crediting Poetry", since, as the author explains, "the ground covered in the lecture is ground originally opened by the poems which here precede it."

Subjects

Poetry Irish contemporary Poetry (poetic works by one author) Literary collections Irish Poets Irish poetry Male authors English poetry Irish authors Poètes irlandais Anthologies Poésie anglaise Auteurs irlandais Poésie

People

Seamus Heany Professor of Poetry at Oxford University 1989-1994

Places

Ireland

Times

1966-1996