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“Door into the Dark,” Seamus Heaney’s second collection of poetry continues many of the themes that we encountered in his debut, “Death of a Naturalist.” Here there is a greater focus on form, relying more on rhyme, even delivering a sonnet of some repute.
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5 de mar. de 2018 · All I know is a door into the dark, Outside, old axles and iron hoops rusting; Inside, the hammered anvil’s short-pitched ring, The unpredictable fantail of sparks. Or hiss when a new shoe toughens in water. The anvil must be somewhere in the centre, Horned as a unicorn, at one end square, Set there immoveable: an altar.
Door into the Dark (1969) is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Poems include " Requiem for the Croppies ", "Thatcher" and "The Wife's Tale". Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the Seamus Heaney Collected Poems album.
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4 de fev. de 2014 · Door into the Dark, Seamus Heaney's second collection of poems, first appeared in 1969. Already his widely celebrated gifts of precision, thoughtfulness, and musicality were...
Indeed, Heaney's earliest poetry collections— Death of a Naturalist (1966) and Door into the Dark (1969)—evoke "a hard, mainly rural life with rare exactness," according to critic and Parnassus contributor Michael Wood.
7 de nov. de 2013 · Door into the Dark. Seamus Heaney. Faber & Faber, Nov 7, 2013 - Poetry - 64 pages. Originally published in 1969, Seamus Heaney's Door into the Dark continues a furrow so startlingly...
Door Into The Dark. Seamus Heaney’s second collection, Door into the Dark, was published in 1969. With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing, its poems graphically depict the author’s rural upbringing, from the ‘fantail of sparks’ in the local forge to the eel-fishermen on the ...
