New Releases by Seamus Heaney

A collection of poems by Irish poet Seamus Heaney.

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Comprises: (1) An incomplete typescript of Heaney''s interview with John Haffenden in January 1979 concerning Heaney''s life and poetry with the latter''s autograph manuscript revisions; (2) A copy of ''Station Island'' (1984) with the author''s autograph manuscript revisions to the text, signed and dated ''September 13 1990''.

In this Kenneth Allott Lecture, Seamus Heaney explores the relationship between ''the almost physiological operations of a poet composing and the music of the finished poem'' through illustrative readings of Wordsworth and Yeats.

Spiral-bound ruled notebook (98 pages ; 28 cm) containing handwritten drafts of poems written between September 1970 and February 1971, and copies (45 pages), primarily typescript, with emendations in the author''s hand. With letter of transmittal, undated, from the author to James D. Hart (identifying poems that are scheduled for publication) and a final draft of the poem, "Toast," presented to Hart.