This collection of Seamus Heaney’s work, especially in the series of 12-line poems entitled Squarings , shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and to credit marvels . The title…

The letters provide us with an intimate, multilayered understanding of this extraordinary poet's life and mind.

Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the…

This new selection of William Wordsworth’s poetry is part of a series of collections from six great nature poets.

The title, The Government of the Tongue, carries suggestions of both monastic discipline and untrammelled romanticism, and is meant to raise an old question about the rights and status of…

For use in schools and libraries only. The Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet presents a faithful, new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior…

With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing, these poems graphically depict the author’s rural upbringing, from the local forge to the…

The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney’s new verse translation of Sophocles’ great tragedy, Antigone.

Coinciding with the National Library of Ireland launching a major exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Heaney, this volume is a singular, accessible collection for new and younger…