Seeing Things (poetry collection)

Seeing Things

First edition (publ. Faber)
Author Seamus Heaney
Language English
Publisher Faber and Faber
Publication date
1991
Media type Print
Pages 128 pp
ISBN 9780571144693
Preceded by The Haw Lantern
Followed by The Spirit Level

Seeing Things is the ninth poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 1991. Heaney draws inspiration from the visions of afterlife in Virgil and Dante Alighieri in order to come to terms with the death of his father, Patrick, in 1986. The title, Seeing Things, refers both to the solid, fluctuating world of objects and to a haunted, hallucinatory realm of the imagination.[1] Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.

PART I


PART II - SQUARINGS

1: Lightenings

2: Settings

3: Crossings

4. Squarings

References


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