Seamus Heaney war ein irischer Dichter, der für Werke von lyrischer Schönheit und ethischer Tiefe gefeiert wurde. Seine Poesie verherrlicht häufig alltägliche Wunder und erweckt die lebendige Vergangenheit zum Leben. Durch sein Schreiben erforschte er die Komplexität menschlicher Erfahrung und die tiefe Verbindung zum Land. Heaneys unverwechselbare Stimme bietet den Lesern eine reiche Auseinandersetzung mit Sprache und der beständigen Resonanz der Erinnerung.
Gedichte 1965 - 2006
Der Nobelpreisträger Seamus Heaney ist der vielleicht bedeutendste Lyriker Großbritanniens. Doch seine Gedichte sind frei von großen Gesten. In ihrer überraschenden Musikalität hört man den Dialekt seiner nordirischen Herkunft. Ihre Humanität entspringt der Aufmerksamkeit für das Werk der Hände – es sind Momentaufnahmen aus einer sich wandelnden Welt, deren Geschwindigkeit man nur ermessen kann, wenn man auch ruhende Objekte zulässt.
This collection of verses showcases the key themes of Heaney's work, including Ireland's absurd political situation, the tension between artistic and political engagement, and the contrast between Irish and English traditions. No contemporary poet has illustrated these interconnections as vividly as Seamus Heaney.
Seamus Heaneys Gedichte thematisieren seine Kindheit in Irland, die Landschaft, das Leben der Torfstecher und Bauern. Diese Auswahl gilt als eines der bedeutendsten Werke der anglo-amerikanischen Literatur.
Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. But now, finally, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family.
New Selected Poems 1988-2013 offers the poems that Heaney himself selected from his collections Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, Beowulf, Electric Light, District and Circle and Human Chain.
The letters provide us with an intimate, multi-layered understanding of this extraordinarypoet's life and mind.
This selection celebrates Czeslaw Milosz's lifetime of poetry. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of expression and probing inquiry. Life opened for Czeslaw Milosz at a crossroads of civilizations in northeastern Europe. This was less a melting pot than a torrent of languages and ideas, where old folk traditions met Catholic, Protestant, Judaic, and Orthodox rites. What unfolded next around him was a century of catastrophe and madness: two world wars, revolutions, invasions, and the murder of tens of millions, all set to a cacophony of hymns, gunfire, national anthems and dazzling lies. In the thick of this upheaval, wide awake and in awe of living, dodging shrapnel, imprisonment, and despair, Milosz tried to understand both history and the moment, with humble respect for the suffering of each individual. He read voraciously in many languages and wrote masterful poetry that, even in translation, is infused with a tireless spirit and a penetrating insight into fundamental human dilemmas and the staggering yet simple truth that "to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name." Unflinching, outspoken, timeless, and unsentimental, Milosz digs through the rubble of the past, forging a vision -- and a warning -- that encompasses both pain and joy. "His intellectual life," writes Seamus Heaney, "could be viewed as a long single combat with shape-shifting untruth."
