Seeing Things (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Seamus Heaney
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Poetry or poets, Sea or seafaring life, Jesus Christ, Athletes, Life, philosophy of, Beaches or seashores, Sports, Ireland or Irish people, Fishing or fishermen, Time, Boats or boating, Soccer, Kites
Seamus Heaney is an archaeologist-poet, using pen and paper rather than spade and excavation to uncover the past. His collection called Seeing Things contains fewer localized historical references to the poet’s Ireland or to its political history than his previous works, but it nevertheless continues the poet’s search. His father—Heaney’s haunting, sometimes overwhelming immediate connection with what was—also appears less often as a figure in this collection, for Seeing Things has aesthetics as its fundamental theme. Its poems focus on homely, mundane phenomena;...
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