Stepping Stones

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, "Stepping Stones" retraces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature and his post-Nobel life. It is supplemented with a large number of photographs, many from the Heaney family album and published here for the first time. In response to firm but subtle questioning from Dennis O'Driscoll, Seamus Heaney sheds a personal light on his work (poems, essays, translations, plays) and on the artistic and ethical challenges he faced, providing an original, diverting and absorbing store of reflections, opinions and recollections.

ISBN 0571242529   Pages 560 ISBN13 9780571242528 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 908 Publisher Faber and Faber   Published in London Imprint Faber and Faber   Height (mm) 240 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 163 Publication date 06 Nov 2008   Spine width (mm) 45 DEWEY 821.914   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

		Glossary
		Chronology
		Maps
I		Bearings
1		From Home to School		3
2		Growing into Poetry		34
II		On the Books
3		'The hazel stirred': Death of a Naturalist		61
4		'Inwards and downwards': Door into the Dark		88
5		'Vowels and history': Wintering Out		121
6		'The bleb of the icicle': North		156
7		'The life we're shown': Field Work		191
8		'To the edge of the water': Station Island		232
9		'The books stood open and the gates unbarred': Harvard		265
10		'A river in the trees': The Haw Lantern		285
11		'Time to be dazzled': Seeing Things		317
12		'Keeping going': The Spirit Level		345
13		'So deeper into it': Electric Light, District and Circle		375
14		'In a wooden O': Field Day, Oxford Professor of Poetry, Translation		414
15		'An ear to the line': Writing and Reading		444
III		Coda
16		In Conclusion		461
		Seamus Heaney: Books and Interviews		477
		Biographical Glossary		483
		Photograph Credits		503
		Index		505

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