Poems, 1965–1975

A compilation of all the poems from the Irish Nobel laureate’s first four collections.

“Heaney is keyed and pitched unlike any significant poet now at work in the language, anywhere.” —Harold Bloom, The Times Literary Supplement

This volume gathers all the poems from Seamus Heaney’s first four collections—Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), and North (1975). Heaney’s second collection of poetry, Selected Poems, 1966-1987 is also available from Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.

Seamus Heaney was born in County Derry in Northern Ireland. He was a resident of Dublin who would spend part of each year teaching at Harvard University. He was a member of the Irish Academy of Arts and Letters and was a recipient of many honors and awards for his poetry.

“In 1938, not a moment too soon, W. B. Yeats admonished his colleagues: ‘Irish poets, learn your trade.’ Seamus Heaney, born the following year, has learned his trade so well that it is now a second nature wonderfully responsive to his first.” —Denis Donoghue, The New York Times Book Review

“His is the most striking talent to come out of Ireland since that of the late Patrick Kavanagh.” —Stephen Spender

“Heaney has all the primary gifts of a poet, and they are gifts put at the service of a constant meditation on primary themes, on nature and history and moral choice.” —John Gross, The New York Times