For the fortieth anniversary of its publication, in May 2006, Faber are reissuing Seamus Heaney's classic first collection, Death of a Naturalist, which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award, the E.C. Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
'His words give us the soil-reek of Ireland, the colourful violence of his childhood on a farm in Derry. The full-blooded energy of these poems makes Death of a Naturalist the best first book of poems I've read for some time.' - C.B. Cox in the Spectator
'The power and precision of his best poems are a delight, and as a first collection Death of a Naturalist is outstanding [...] His subject is those things which are inherent or inherited. What he praises is to be praised in his own work.' - Christopher Ricks, New Statesman
'Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime,
To stare big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring
Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme
To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.'
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- Authors:
- Heaney, Seamus
- Year Published:
- 2006
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780571230839
- Number of Pages:
- 56
- Publication Date:
- 06/04/2006
- Publisher:
- Faber Faber
- Publication Date:
- 06/04/2006
- Publisher:
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication:
- London
- SKU:
- 9780571230839