Author: Heaney, Seamus
Brand: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Features:
- New Store Stock
Number Of Pages: 80
PartNumber: 9780571178223
Release Date: 08-10-2001
Details: The poems in Seamus Heaney's collection The Spirit Level keep discovering the possibilities of 'a new beginning' in all kinds of subjects and circumstances. What is at stake, in poem after poem, is the chance of buoyancy and balance, physical, spiritual and political. Private memories, classical scenes, humble domestic objects - a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing - are endowed with talismanic significance, while friends and relatives are invoked for their promise and steadfastness. Throughout the collection, Heaney addresses his concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert and completely truthful.
EAN: 9780571178223
Model: 9780571178223
Languages: English
Binding: paperback
Item Condition: New