Best Selling Books by Seamus Heaney

In this English translation of poems written by Ozef Kalda, which were set to music by Leos Janacek, the folktale of a farmer''s boy who abandons his home because he has fallen in love with a gypsy is told.

In a collection of essays, three of our generation''s greatest poets explore the mythologies and misconceptions that surround one of this country''s most idolized poets.

Chronicles the life of twentieth-century Irish poet Seamus Heaney, from his infancy to his Nobel Prize in 1995, and also discusses his post-Nobel life, family, writings, and other related topics.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin, and was educated in Ireland and England. He was instrumental in the development of a national Irish theatre - and in particular, the founding of the Abbey Theatre. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

This collection of Seamus Heaney''s work, especially in the vivid and surprising twelve-line poems entitled Squarings, shows he is ready to re-imagine experience and to credit marvels. The title poem, Seeing Things, is typical of the whole book. It begins with memories of an actual event, then moves towards the visionary while never relinquishing its feel for the textures and sensations of the world.

1. Trial binding labelled "dusted lemon gold, front blind; 10/3/79,"--2. Uncut sheets of gatherings A and B for the London, Boston ed. of Field work published by Faber and Faber. -- 3. Dust jacket for the New York ed. by Farrar, Straus, Giroux with ms. note "1st proof, 10/2/99."

There is something about a treasure, wrote Joseph Conrad, that fastens on a man''s mind. And, yes, there is something about the subject of treasure hunting that continues to fascinate us. One need only browse the Web to discover a whole netherworld of treasure-hunting magazines, metal-detector clubs, and lost-mine information exchanges that apparently engage the funds and spare time of thousands of hopefuls. Charles Elliott recaptures the essential romance of the search in this collection of classic stories. Many are true - or purport to be. They take place under the sea, in jungles, on desert islands, even in the attics of old houses. What is common to them all is the excitement of the chase and the possibility - irrational, perhaps, but unavoidable - that a fabulous treasure really is there for the finding.

Keuze uit eerder verschenen bundels van de Ierse dichter (geb. 1930)