The collection contains ten separate books in .htm format (run index.

htm to see
front page):
Door into the Dark (1972)
Wintering Out (1972)
Station Island (1984)
The Haw Lantern (1987)
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (1990)
Death of a Naturalist (1991)
Sweeney's Flight (1992)
North (1992)
The Spirit Level (1996)
Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 (1998)
- all of them went out of print at Faber and Faber publishers.
Seamus Justin Heaney -- Irish poet whose work is notable for its evocati
on of Irish
rural life and events in Irish history as well as for its allusions to Irish myt
h. He
received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 - "for works of lyrical beauty a
nd ethical
depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".
After graduating from Queen's University, Belfast (B.A., 1961), Heaney t
aught
secondary school for a year and then lectured in colleges and universities in Be
lfast
and Dublin. He became a member of the Field Day Theatre Company in 1980, soon af
ter
its founding by playwright Brian Friel and actor Stephen Rea. In 1982 he joined
the
faculty of Harvard University as visiting professor and, in 1985, became full
professora post he retained while teaching at the University of Oxford (198994).
Heaney's first poetry collection was the prizewinning Death of a Natural
ist (1966).
In this book and Door into the Dark (1969), he wrote in a traditional style abou
t a passing
way of lifethat of domestic rural life in Northern Ireland. In Wintering Out (197
2) and
North (1975), he began to encompass such subjects as the violence in Northern Ir
eland and
contemporary Irish experience, though he continued to view his subjects through
a mythic
and mystical filter. Among the later volumes that reflect Heaney's honed and dec
eptively
simple style are Field Work (1979), Station Island (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987
), and
Seeing Things (1991). The Spirit Level (1996) concerns the notion of centredness
and
balance in both the natural and the spiritual senses. His Opened Ground: Selecte

d Poems,
19661996 was published in 1998.
Heaney also wrote essays on poetry and poets, including such figures as William
Wordsworth,
Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Lowell. Some of these essays appeared in Preo
ccupations:
Selected Prose, 19681978 (1980). A collection of his lectures at Oxford was publ
ished as
The Redress of Poetry (1995). The Cure at Troy (1991) is Heaney's version of Sop
hocles'
Philoctetes, and a later volume, The Midnight Verdict (1993), contains translati
ons of
selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses and from Cirt an mheadhon oidhche (The Midni
ght Court),
a work by the 18th-century Irish writer Brian Merriman. Heaney's translation of
the Old
English epic poem Beowulf (1999) became an unexpected international best seller.