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Finders Keepers: Selected Prose, 1971-2001

Whether autobiographical, topical, or specifically literary, these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write? What is his relationship to be to his own voice, his own place, his literary heritage and the contemporary world?"

Along with a selection from the poet's three previous collections of prose (Preoccupations, The Government of the Tongue, and The Redress of Poetry), the present volume includes Heaney's finest lectures and a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in volume form, ranging from short newspaper articles to radio commentaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets — Irish and British, American and Eastern European, predecessors and contemporaries — Finders Keepers is, as its title indicates, "an announcement of both excitement and possession."

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 432
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-374-15496-7
  • EAN
  • 9780374154967
  • Genres
  • poetry, essays, ireland, criticism, literature, philosophy, school
  • Release date
  • 2002