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    Seamus Heaney III Collected Poems (published 1996-2010): The Spirit Level; Electric Light; District and Circle; Human Chain
    Seamus Heaney III Collected Poems (published 1996-2010): The Spirit Level; Electric Light; District and Circle; Human Chain
    Seamus Heaney III Collected Poems (published 1996-2010): The Spirit Level; Electric Light; District and Circle; Human Chain
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    Seamus Heaney III Collected Poems (published 1996-2010): The Spirit Level; Electric Light; District and Circle; Human Chain

    Written by Seamus Heaney

    Narrated by Seamus Heaney

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    Volume Three of the definitive collection of Seamus Heaney reading his own work, recorded in in 2009 by RTE. Volume Three contains four collections published between 1996 and 2010: The Spirit Level, Electric Light, District and Circle and Human Chain. To the RTE recordings Faber has added live readings by the poet of eleven poems from his twelfth and final collection, Human Chain (2010).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFaber & Faber
    Release dateSep 27, 2018
    ISBN9780571351923
    Seamus Heaney III Collected Poems (published 1996-2010): The Spirit Level; Electric Light; District and Circle; Human Chain
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    Seamus Heaney

    Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats."

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