| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xxx, 522 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
From home to school -- Growing into poetry -- 'The hazel stirred': death of a naturalist -- 'Inwards and downwards': door into the dark -- 'Vowels and history': wintering out -- 'The bleb of the icicle': North -- 'The life we're shown': field work -- 'To the edge of the water': Station Island -- 'The books stood open and the gates unbarred': Harvard -- 'A river in the trees': The Haw Lantern -- 'Time to be dazzled': seeing things -- 'Keeping going': the spirit level -- 'So deeper into it': electric light, district and circle -- 'In a wooden O': Field Day, Oxford professor of poetry, translation -- 'An ear to the line': writing and reading. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
"Seamus Heaney books and interviews": pages 477-481. |
| Summary |
Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet?s steps from his first exploratory testing of the ground as an infant to what he called his ?moon-walk? to the podium to receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It also fascinatingly charts his post-Nobel life and is supplemented with a number of photographs, many from the Heaney family album and published here for the first time. In response to firm but subtle questioning from Dennis O?Driscoll, Heaney sheds a personal light on his work (poems, essays, translations, plays) and on the artistic and ethical challenges he faced during the dark years of the Ulster Troubles. |
| Subject |
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 -- Interviews.
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Poets, Irish -- 20th century -- Interviews.
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| Added Author |
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.
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| ISBN |
9780374269838 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0374269831 hardcover alkaline paper |
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