Overview
Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations, begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin.
- | Author: Seamus Heaney
- | Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- | Publication Date: Sep 01, 1981
- | Number of Pages: 224 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0374516502
- | ISBN-13: 9780374516505
