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The Spirit Level

di Seamus Heaney

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In this collection, as ever with Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects -- a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing -- are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful.… (altro)

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Reading my first full collection of Heaney I was forced to really slow down. He draws on language that has heavy sounds, real weight, and a lot of unfamiliar verbiage to a Canadian whose only spent a year in the UK. The poems that stayed with me were earthly but also transcendental and I could've done with less of the Greek mythos.

b.masonjudy | Apr 3, 2020 |

I've taken to reading poetry on the train and the bus and Seamus Heaney's work is an incomparable travel companion. I feel he's so far above anything I can say - these poems take you to both specific moments and places and to universal truths and experiences. Read Heaney.

Figgles | Dec 6, 2018 |

From "Weighing In"

And this is all the good tiding amount to:
The principle of bearing, bearing up
An bearing out, just having to

Balance the intolerable in others
Against our own, having to abide
Whatever we settled for and settled into

Against our better judgement. Passive
Suffering makes the world go round.
Peace on earth, men of good will, all that

Holds good only as long as the balance holds,
The scales ride steady and the angels' strain
Prolongs itself at an unearthly pitch.

And yet the collection itself ends with this, in the poem "Tollund"

More scouts than strangers, ghosts who'd walked
abroad

Unfazed by light, to make a new beginning
And make a go of it, alive and sinning,
Ourselves again, free-willed again, not bad.

I feel like these two short excerpts are the best way to do justice to the power inherent in this collection of poetry, and Heaney's work in general. (

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Lepophagus | Jun 14, 2018 |

Heaney’s post-Nobel publication is heart-warming poetry at its finest. His words take on a brogue that is both familiar and exotic. He does not need to be coy with the language like Stevens nor difficult like cummings, but rather tries to place the reader in a time or a place that simply needs to be known. (

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NielsenGW | Mar 2, 2008 |

A fine collection of verse by a fine poet.

Fledgist | Nov 22, 2007 |

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Audie Award (Finalista – Poesia – 1998)

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In this collection, as ever with Heaney, personal memory and humble domestic objects -- a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing -- are endowed with talismanic significance, and throughout the collection he addresses his growing concerns, which inevitably include the political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry that never ceases to be fluid, alert, and completely truthful.

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