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Seeing Things is the eighth 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.
30 de nov. de 2023 · “Seeing Things” is a profound collection of poetry by Seamus Heaney, a towering figure in modern Irish literature and a Nobel Laureate in Literature. This collection, published in 1991, delves into the themes of perception, memory, and the transcendence of the ordinary into the extraordinary.
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Below we introduce ten of the greatest poems about sight, and ‘vision’ in its various guises. John Milton, ‘ On His Blindness ’. We begin this list of classic poems about seeing and sight with a poem that’s actually about losing the ability to see: John Milton’s celebrated sonnet about his loss of vision, in the early 1650s.
“Seeing Things,” as its title implies, is a poem about vision. The fusion of abstract and concrete, of natural and supernatural, is central to Heaney’s visionary enthusiasm.
Seamus Heaney. Macmillan, 1991 - Poetry - 107 pages. Seeing Things (1991), as Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "is a book of thresholds and crossings, of losses...
Published in 1991, soon after he entered his fifties, Seeing Things saw the poet ready ‘to credit marvels’ in poems that often had an illusory quality, and included the sonnet sequence ‘Glanmore Revisited’, and the 48 twelve-line poems of ‘Squarings’.
