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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.
Books. 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...
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’. A mid-career tour de force, it paved the way for the Nobel Prize in Literature ...
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...
30 nov 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.
7 lug 2021 · Seeing things. by. Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013. Publication date. 1991. Publisher. London ; Boston : Faber and Faber. Collection. printdisabled; internetarchivebooks.
1 gen 1991 · Seamus Heaney. 4.12. 756 ratings70 reviews. Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review , "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses balanced by marvels, of casting and gathering and the hushed, contrary air between water and sky, earth and heaven."
