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Seamus Heaney · bibliography

Seamus Heaney prose, criticism, and lectures books in order

Standalone prose books, critical works, lectures, and lecture pamphlets by Seamus Heaney.

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  1. 1
    The Island People

    Book 1 · broadcast_prose · 1968

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    Explorations

    Book 2 · broadcast_prose · 1973

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  3. 3
    The Fire i' the Flint: Reflections on the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

    Book 3 · literary_criticism · 1975

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  4. 4
    Robert Lowell: A Memorial Address and an Elegy

    Book 4 · literary_criticism · 1978

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  5. 5
    The Makings of a Music: Reflections on the Poetry of Wordsworth and Yeats

    Book 5 · lecture · 1978

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  6. 6
    Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968–1978

    Book 6 · essays · 1980

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  7. 7
    Among Schoolchildren: A Lecture Dedicated to the Memory of John Malone

    Book 7 · lecture · 1983

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  8. 8
    The Place of Writing

    Book 11 · essays · 1989

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  9. 9
    Readings in Contemporary Poetry

    Book 9 · lecture · 1988

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  10. 10
    The Sounds of Rain

    Book 10 · lecture · 1988

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    An Upstairs Outlook

    Book 12 · lecture · 1989

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  12. 12
    The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures

    Book 13 · literary_criticism · 1995

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  13. 13
    Charles Montgomery Monteith

    Book 14 · lecture · 1995

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  14. 14
    Hope and History

    Book 15 · lecture · 2002

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  15. 15
    Ecologues in Extremis

    Book 16 · lecture · 2002

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  16. 16
    Articulations

    Book 17 · lecture · 2008

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