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The Spirit Level
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The title of Seamus Heaney's first collection of poetry since winning the Nobel Prize in 1995 is the term used in Ireland for a carpenter's level, an earthy physical allusion to matters of spirit that is quintessential Heaney. And indeed this volume deals masterfully with the finding of a level balancing point in ethical, moral, and spiritual affairs. Heaney has famously likened his craft to the farming activities of his childhood, comparing his pen to his father's spade; here he extends that analogy, comparing the lines of a poem to furrows being plowed in the earth, and "the poem as ploughshare that turns time/ Up and over." Heaney's furrows are straight and clean, his loamy lines abundantly fertile.
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Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0571177603
- ISBN 13 9780571177608
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages80
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