Heaney, Seamus

Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fine / Fine. Item #006714

Full brown paper, black spine label. 224 pp. Dust jacket stained to rear cover, else fine in a fine jacket. Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations, begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin.

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